Devin Pickell

Devin Pickell is a registered professional geologist and the President and CEO of Renegade Gold (TSX-V: RAGE), where he is assembling one of the largest exploration land packages in the Red Lake gold district of Ontario. With two decades of experience in mineral production and exploration across North America, Pickell brings a geologist's eye to district-scale targeting — the practice of identifying large, continuous geological structures that could host multiple deposits rather than chasing single showings.

Pickell's career took shape in the Rice Lake region of the Red Lake greenstone belt (a band of ancient volcanic and sedimentary rocks known for gold deposits). There, he contributed to the discovery of multiple new deposits and played a role in the sale of the Rice Lake mine to Klondex Mines, a mid-tier gold producer that was later acquired by Hecla Mining. This combination of exploration success and deal involvement gives Pickell a practical understanding of both the geology that makes a project valuable and the corporate mechanics of monetizing a discovery.

At Renegade Gold, Pickell has expanded the Confederation Project to more than 100,000 hectares — roughly 1,000 square kilometers — through strategic acquisitions along regional mineralizing structures. The company's recent magnetic survey (an airborne geophysical method that maps rock types and structures beneath surface cover) defined priority drill targets along a district-scale corridor consistent with known gold-bearing trends in the region. Historic sampling on newly acquired ground has returned grades as high as 60 grams per tonne gold at surface.

Pickell's approach centers on large land positions in proven mining camps, structural geology as the primary targeting tool, and systematic exploration using geophysics and geochemistry before committing to drilling. He specializes in gold and lithium, having advanced projects in both commodities across North America. For investors evaluating junior gold explorers, Pickell's commentary offers a geologist's perspective on what makes a Red Lake project genuinely prospective versus merely well-promoted.