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Mark Luchinski

CEO & Director | Earthwise Minerals Corp. (CSE: WISE) | Junior Mining Executive

"Leading Earthwise Minerals' exploration of the district-scale Iron Range Gold Project in British Columbia"

Mining Executive

Biography

Mark Luchinski is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Earthwise Minerals Corp. (CSE: WISE; FSE: 966; OTCQB: EWISF), a Canadian junior exploration company advancing the Iron Range Gold Project in southeastern British Columbia. For resource investors, Luchinski represents the boots-on-the-ground leadership of an early-stage gold explorer working a district-scale target in a proven mining jurisdiction.

Luchinski leads Earthwise's efforts at Iron Ridge, where the company holds an option to earn up to an 80% interest in the fully permitted project near Creston, B.C. The company completed its first diamond drill program (a drilling method using diamond-tipped bits to extract cylindrical rock cores for geological analysis) and reported intersecting alteration and mineralization in all drill holes — an early but necessary signal that the target area warrants further exploration. The project is at the stage where initial results inform future drilling decisions, and Luchinski is responsible for translating those results into an exploration strategy and capital plan.

Before Earthwise, Luchinski has served as an officer and director across several public companies, giving him experience navigating the regulatory, financing, and operational demands of the junior mining sector. He is a graduate of the University of Victoria. While his public track record is closely tied to Earthwise's current work at Iron Range rather than a long history of major discoveries or producing mines, his role puts him at the intersection of exploration geology, project financing, and investor communication that defines the junior explorer lifecycle.

Investors following Luchinski should focus on what comes next for Iron Range: whether follow-up drilling expands the mineralized zones, whether the company can maintain its fully permitted status as it scales up activity, and how effectively management raises capital in a challenging junior mining market. He has appeared in interviews with established resource investing commentators Don Durrett and John Feneck, indicating active engagement with the retail investor community that follows small-cap explorers.

Videos (1)

Don Durrett & John Feneck Interview Earthwise Minerals ($WISE | $EWISF) on the Iron Range Project

Don Durrett & John Feneck Interview Earthwise Minerals ($WISE | $EWISF) on the Iron Range Project

guest Apr 14, 2026
  • Top takeaway Luchinski lays out a fully organized May 2026 drill program — about 1,200 meters across three or four holes at the Talon zone — backed by a recent $700,000 raise that brought cash to $1.1 million.
  • He details the targets: the Talon zone, untested for gold for roughly a decade, hosts the 56.5-meter, 1.9 g/t gold discovery hole about 200 meters down, and a hard-rock sample from another zone ran 13 g/t gold and 27 g/t silver.
  • He argues the project is de-risked by about $8 million of historical work — 87 holes, 21,000 meters of drilling, 10,000 grab samples and a recent IP survey — with the Talon zone in the same formation as the Sullivan mine and about two kilometers from the highway and railway.
  • He spells out the four-year earn-in to 80%: $4 million of exploration, $250,000 in cash and $1.5 million in shares to Eagle Plains, lighter in the first two years.
  • On people and structure, he cites Andy Randall joining the advisory board, Eagle Plains' Kerry Bates designing the program, board member Karen Mait's fundraising strength, and about 64 million shares outstanding.

Earthwise Minerals plans about 1,200 metres of May drilling across three or four holes at the Iron Range Talon zone. CEO Mark Luchinski anchors the story on a 56.5-metre intercept grading 1.9 g/t (grams per tonne) gold from about 200 metres depth. Roughly $8 million of historical work across 87 holes, plus road, highway, and railway access, underpins the exploration plan. The four-year earn-in with Eagle Plains requires $4 million in exploration, $250,000 cash, and $1.5 million in shares. The hosts frame the sub-$2 million market cap junior as a dice-rolling speculation that could pay off quickly.

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Key Quotes

"We are encouraged by the completion of our first drill program at Iron Range and the consistent intersection of alteration and mineralization across all three drill holes."

— Earthwise Minerals press release on initial drill results

Key Works

Specializations

GoldExplorationJunior MinersBritish Columbia Mining

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