Isaac Benjamin Maresky

Isaac Maresky is a former mining analyst turned entrepreneur. Having maintained a mining comps database of over 200 junior mining companies, Isaac came to eschew the standard “option structure” wherein juniors accept large liabilities and royalties in exchange for expensive options on assets, often leading to dilutive financings and costly payments. Without equitably aligning each property’s founding geologist, some miners advance assets without the geologist’s involvement whatsoever or even counter to the discovering geologist’s geological & structural models, diminishing chances of success.

Contrary to this old “option structure”, Isaac has developed and advocated for the partnership based acquisitions strategy, directly involving land owners and geologists responsible for originally identifying and maintaining the properties. As a result, Vicunau has acquired a portfolio of prime properties while aligning land owners via equitable share-based deals, without any large liabilities or royalties whatsoever. As an additional bonus, Vicuna has aligned itself with the renowned geologists who not only discovered the largest copper and gold mines in the country, but actually understand the assets better than anyone else.

Isaac is also an active gold, silver, and copper investor, having invested in dozens of mining companies including several acquired by majors. He is an active angel investor with a large online following.