President and founder of Laird Exploration Ltd, Mr. James Laird is a BC Qualified Prospector and has over 30 years experience as a mineral exploration consultant to major and junior mining companies, aboriginal groups and as an exploration manager. He currently serves on the Boards of Silver Fields Resources Ltd., Oxbow Resources Ltd., Laredo Resources Ltd., and Flex Fuels Energy Ltd.  Based mainly in BC, he has made discoveries of economic deposits of precious and base metals, industrial minerals, gemstones and lapidary materials.  He has designed, permitted and managed successful exploration programs in a variety of geological and political environments.

Mr. Laird is a BC Qualified Prospector and his consulting company, Laird Exploration Ltd. has provided exploration management services and mineral properties of merit for the Mining Industry for 30 years.  Lairdex Ltd. creates Canadian mineral specimen kits for the Geological Survey of Canada and many BC educational institutions, and provides rare mineral specimens to collectors.  Educational services include prospecting classes for the former BC and Yukon Chamber of Mines, the British Columbia Institute of Technology, the BC Museum of Mining and many public schools. BC mineral collecting field trips for Universities and Museums are also offered.

James Laird is a published author of numerous historical mining articles, an outdoor photographer, and award-winning documentary filmmaker for the Discovery Channel HD film “Lost Nuke”, the story of the world’s first lost nuclear bomb. 

The Vice President of Laird Exploration Ltd. is Mr. Derek Setchfield who assists in company operations and field programs.

The company is seasonally staffed by Dr. K. Warren Geiger Ph.D. P.Eng. P. Geol.; Greg Thomson, B.Sc. P. Geol.; Jeremy Porter, Qualified Prospector; Christopher and Brendan Laird, prospectors; Johnathan England and Evan Quon, field technicians, and others.