Natural Resources >> CEO Interviews >> August 31, 1998
MARGARET K. (PEGGY) WITTE has served as President and Chief Executive
Officer and Chairman of the Board of the Corporation or a predecessor
thereof since 1989. From 1986 to 1989, Ms. Witte was President and Chief
Executive Officer of Neptune Resources Corp. Ms. Witte has a Master of
Science degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Mackay School of
Mines at the University of Nevada - Reno and a Bachelor of Science
degree in Chemistry from the University of Nevada. Ms. Witte is a member
of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum and past
director of the Mining Association of Canada and the Prospectors and
Developers Association of Canada. Ms. Witte is a recipient of several
awards, including Special Achievement Award, Canadian Mineral Processors
(1985), Woman of Distinction Award Y.W.C.A. (1991), Developer of the
Year, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (1993) and the
Financial Post's Newsmaker of the Year (1994). Ms. Witte is also a
director of Highwood Resources Ltd., Talisman Energy Inc., an oil and
gas company, and Nova Corporation, a commodity chemicals company. Profile
Ms. Witte: Royal Oak Mines is an intermediate-sized gold-mining company.
We're going to produce about 340,000 ounces of
