Directors
Gary Liubakka
Mr. Liubakka serves as a member of the Board of Directors and will provide oversight of mineral resources and characterization. As a fee representative of Great Northern Iron Ore Properties for over 25 years, he has logged and recorded the iron deposits across the Mesabi Range. Mr. Liubakka has been involved in the development of numerous technologies in the field of mining and oil. He has provided assistance to multiple mining operations on the Iron Range to include geological exploration and mining process evaluations.
Dale Hintsala
Mr. Hintsala is the former President of Noramco Engineering Company, Hibbing, Minnesota. Mr. Hintsala graduated from Michigan Technological University with a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Civil Engineering. Mr. Hintsala previously worked for Davy McKee in the position of Manager of Engineering for the Hibbing, Minnesota branch. More recently, Mr. Hintsala was one of the founders and President of Noramco Engineering Company, Hibbing, Minnesota.
Dan Hintsala
Mr. Hintsala has been in the mining engineering field for over 50 years. Mr. Hintsala founded and operated U.P. Fabricators for 25 years. Mr. Hintsala graduated from Michigan Technological University in 1964 as a Mechanical Engineer. He began his career in the mining industry with Hanna Mining Company in Iron River, Michigan. In 2005, Mr. Hintsala became part of a new Michigan company called UP Steel. With UP Steel, Mr. Hintsala received a $550,000 grant from Michigan State to design and build a rotary hearth furnace to turn iron ore into an iron nugget using microwave as the heating source. Mr. Hintsala designed the system used as a pilot project to process iron ore to manufacture iron nuggets.
