From: kbogatyr@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Konstantin K Bogatyrev)
Subject: Economic Geology/Gold
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:12:56 GMT

                              Grigor M. Levitan
                          34-27 79th Street, Apt. B
                          Jackson Heights, NY 11372
                               (718) 446-1326


                                 Summary

Economic geologist with many years of heavy supervision and field 
experience, specializing in finding, exploration, and evaluation of 
gold deposits.


                              Experience

1992 -    Senior Geologist, the Klinz Group, Inc., New York, NY
		
      o   Responsible for evaluation of gold development projects 
          in the former USSR including Russia, Kazakhstan, and 
          Kyrghyzstan for joint ventures, and for feasibility studies 
          of various development projects related to Kyrghyz gold 
          deposits
                
       o  continued work on a book on gold deposits in the former
          Soviet Union

1991-1992  Consulting Geologist, Santa Fe Pacific Mining, Inc., 
           Albuquerque, NM
       
       o   Developed a description of new types of gold deposits in the
           former Soviet Union
		
1991-1992  Consulting Geologist, Black Swan Gold Mines, Vancouver, Canada

       o   Evaluated gold related projects in Russia

1983-1990  Department Head, Central Research Institute of Geological 
           Prospecting of Base and Precious Metals (TsNIGRI), Moscow, Russia

       o   Supervised a research team which prepared geological and prognostic 
           maps for the most important gold belts of the former USSR at a 
           scale of 1:500,000

       o   Organized and directed regional conferences on the gold resources 
           of the USSR for the following regions: Urals and West Siberia 
           (Ekaterinburg, 1984), Kazakhstan and Central Asia (Alma-Ata, 1985), 
           East Siberia (Krasnoyarsk, 1985), Far East and Yakutia (Khabarovsk, 
           1986), Caucasus (Tbilisi, 1986)

       o   Participated in detailed exploration in such gold-producing regions 
           as Kochkar, Beriozovsk, and Kumtor

       o   Contributed to the discovery of Murticti and Stanovlyanka gold 
           deposits with reserves of forty tons and average grade of 5 g/t

       o   As a member of the Academic Council reviewed reports on geology 
           and gold deposits in various regions

       o   Member of the Ph.D. advisory committee; official reviewer of 11 
           Ph. D. dissertations

1990   Associate Professor, Management School of Advanced Methods in 
       Exploration and Mining

1990   Director of the Summer School for geologists from the republics
       of Kyrghyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. 

       o   The schools provided graduate and post-graduate training in the 
           new methods of prospecting and exploration of gold deposits

1983-1990  Academic Secretary, the Gold Committee, USSR Ministry of Geology

1983-1990  Supervisor of gold exploration responsible for the Urals and 
           Tien-Shan regions 

       o   Reviewed and evaluated annual reports provided by industrial 
           associations related to the gold exploration and/or ministries 
           of geology in the Ural region of Russia and the republics of 
           Kyrghyzstan, Tadzhikistan, and Uzbekistan

1968-1983  Senior Geologist, TsNIGRI, Moscow

       o   Conducted extensive field research of operating gold mines in 
           the Urals and Tien Shan including mapping at 1:10,000-1:50,000,
           geochemical investigations, and mine geology

1956-1968  Project Geologist, Second Hydrogeological Directorate

       o   Conducted national quadrangle geological mapping at a 1:200,000 
           scale in the North Sikhote-Alin region of Siberia. Completed 
           and published two quadrangles

                          
                          Other achievements

1987    Awarded First Prize by the USSR Ministry of Geology for the 
        development of a new prospecting and exploration methodology

1983    Distinguished Service Award from the Ministry of Geology for 
        participation in a discovery of gold deposits

1978    Certified as a Registered Professional Geologist/Senior Research 
        Associate

				Education

1969    Candidate's Degree (Ph. D.) in Geology, Central Research
        Institute of Geological Prospecting of Base and Precious Metals
        (TsNIGRI), Moscow, Russia

1956    Diploma (M.S.) in Economic Geology. Moscow Institute of Geology
        and Exploration (MGRI), Moscow, Russia


                        Research and publications

                             A. Monographs

     Prognosis and Prospecting of Gold Deposits. Moscow, TsNIGRI, 1989, 235 pp.

     Methods of Large Scale and Local Prognosis of Base and Precious Metals. 
     Moscow, TsNIGRI, 1989, 274 pp.

     Precious Metals. Volume 10, Book 2: "Distribution of Commercial Minerals". 
     Nedra Publishers, Leningrad, 1989 (with N. K. Kurbanov, V. A. Narseev and 
     others)

     Gold Deposits. Methods of Prospecting. Moscow, TsNIGRI, 1990, 244 pp.

     Local Prognosis and Prospecting of Gold Deposits: an Instruction
     Manual.  Management Schools for Advanced Methods in Exploration and 
     Mining, USSR Ministry of Geology, 1991, 128 pp. (with M. M. 
     Konstantinov)

     Gold Deposits of the Former Soviet Union.  Small World Publications, Inc., 
     Albuquerque, New Mexico, forthcoming (with E. Bloomstain)
		

                        B. Selected articles

     "New Age Dates for Mezozoic Intrusives of the Udskiy basin in the Sea of 
     Okhotsk Region", - Soviet Geology, 1968, 8, pp. 2-5

     "The Structural Geology in the North-Eastern Part of the Udskiy Basin," - 
     Geotectonics, 1968, 2, pp. 103-115 (with V. I. Tcherniavskiy)

     "Types and Distribution of Gold Deposits in the Phanerozoic Folded 
     Regions," - Soviet Geology, 1974, 9, pp. 72-77 (with N. I. Borodaevskiy)

     "On Possible Genetic Significance of Carats of the Native Gold as 
     Applicable to the Gold Deposits in the Urals," Geokhimiia, 1977, 4, pp. 
     559-565 (with R. O. Berson)

     "Initial Orogenic Stage at the Uralian Hercynian Eugeosyncline and its 
     Metallogeny," - Geotectonics, 1978, 6, pp. 44-57

     "Granitoid Formations of the Eastern Slope of the Middle and Southern 
     Urals," - Soviet Geology, 12, 1979, pp. 42-56 (with N. A. Ershova and 
     others)

     "Gold in Biotites and magnetites of Granitoides as a criterion of 
     metallogenic specialization," - Proceedings of the USSR Academy of 
     Sciences. Geological Series, 9, 1979, pp. 107-114 (with A. I. Grabezhev 
     and others)

     "The Eastern Boundary of Hercynides on the Southern Urals," - Tectonics 
     of Siberia, Volume X, Novosibirsk, 1981, pp. 61-67

     "Geological Position of Gabbro-diorite-granodiorite Intrusives in 
     Marginal and Intra-continental Folded Regions," - Proceedings of the 
     USSR Academy of Sciences. Geological Series, 7, 1983, pp. 22-26

     "Copper and Gold Mineralization in Tectonomagmatic Evolution of 
     Hercynides of the East of the Urals," - Reports of the USSR Academy 
     of Sciences, 1986, Volume 287, 1, pp. 182-185 (with S. T. Ageeva and 
     A. G. Volchkov)

     "Slant-crossing metallogenic Zone of the Southern Tien-Shan," - Reports 
     of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1986, Volume 289, 2, pp. 436-439 
     (with N. A. Ershova and N. T. Kochneva)

     "Geological and Mining Grouping of Gold Deposits," - Prospecting and 
     Protection of Natural resources, 1986, 1, pp. 21-24


                    Immigration Status

     Employment authorized by the U.S. Government

                         
                     Recommendations

     Available upon request