public traded as tsx lex industry mining headquarters toronto ontario canada key people rob mcewen chairman website www.lexamvggold.com lexam vg gold inc. is a north american gold exploration company formed by the merger of lexam explorations inc. and vg gold corp. principal prospects are in canada notably near the dome mine in northern ontario near timmins . contents 1 about lexam vg gold 2 management 3 history 4 notes 5 external links about lexam vg gold edit lexam vg gold explores for gold in the timmins area of northern ontario canada . formed in 2011 by the merger 1 of lexam explorations inc. and vg gold corp. it resulted in an exploration company that is 27 % owned by chairman rob mcewen . lexam vg gold carries out exploration programs designed to build the resource base 2 with the objective of identifying economic deposits 3 on its property assets . the most developed projects are buffalo ankerite 100 % interest fuller 100 % interest paymaster 60 % interest 4 and davidson tisdale 100 % interest . 5 the company s properties hold some of the historic mines of the porcupine gold rush while the big three dome mine hollinger mines mcintyre mines surround them within a distance of a few kilometers . lexam vg gold is listed on the toronto stock exchange tsx lex on otcqx lexvf and on the frankfurt stock exchange vn3a . management edit robert r. mcewen is non executive chairman andrew iaboni is chief financial officer ken guy is exploration manager of lexam vg gold . history edit below are referenced the participating companies in the january 1 2011 merger that formed lexam vg gold . lexam explorations inc. spun out of goldcorp on november 12 1993 . the company developed gas and oil projects and brought a strong treasury to the merger . robert r. mcewen was chairman and chief executive officer of the company . vg gold corp. was founded in march 24 1972 . the company brought the timmins gold projects to the merger . thomas w. meredith was president and chief executive officer of the company . notes edit court approves plan of arrangement between lexam explorations and vg gold . yahoo finance based on a press release by the companies published in marketwire . december 20 2010 . retrieved september 14 2011 . lexam focuses on potential for open pit mining in timmins updated resource estimates for four projects generate open pit gold resources of 761 200 oz indicated 359 600 oz inferred . marketwire press release by the company . june 3 2013 . retrieved june 5 2013 . lexam hopes to develop open pits at historic producers . canadian mining journal based on a press release by the company published in marketwired . april 23 2014 . retrieved july 7 2014 . lexam vg gold exercises paymaster property option enters into joint venture agreement with goldcorp . yahoo finance based on a press release by the company published in marketwire . june 18 2012 . retrieved june 27 2012 . lexam vg expands holdings in the prolific timmins gold district . tmx money based on a press release by the company published in marketwired . march 3 2015 . retrieved march 16 2015 . external links edit lexam vg gold s corporate homepage rob mcewen s homepage retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lexam vg gold & oldid 739578510 categories companies listed on the toronto stock exchangemining companies of canadacompanies based in toronto navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 september 2016 at 14 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view