Over a career spanning several decades, Dr. Jackson, PhD, was involved in the discovery and development of several major resource discoveries including the multibillion-dollar Red Dog zinc-lead deposits in northwestern Alaska, currently operated by Teck, the Viken deposit in Sweden containing over one billion pounds of U3O8 and a multibillion-pound resource of molybdenum, vanadium, and nickel and zinc, and the Turnagain nickel-cobalt-platinum deposit at Dease Lake, B.C., from prospect to that of a large nickel resource, currently held by Giga Metals.