http://www.bcbusinessonline.ca/joanne-freeze The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.bcbusinessonline.ca/bcb/top-stories/2008/02/01/deep-freeze <img src="http://www.bcbusinessonline.ca/files/articles/brella_4.jpg" alt="brella_4.jpg" title="brella_4.jpg" width="125" height="125" /><br /> <p>By Susan Hollis</p> <br /> Joanne Freeze has a thing for rocks. The president, CEO and co-founder of Candente Resource Corp., a Vancouver-based mineral exploration and development company, loves rocks so much she has endured spider venom, carried a gun and slept in grizzly habitats to learn more about them. <br> <br> But Freeze’s passion is born out of pragmatism. Drawing from 30 years of geological experience, Freeze and Candente recently laid claim to what an independent panel of engineers has estimated as somewhere in the ballpark of eight billion pounds of copper in northern Peru. <br /><br /> <p><a href="http://www.bcbusinessonline.ca/bcb/top-stories/2008/02/01/deep-freeze">read more</a></p> http://www.bcbusinessonline.ca/bcb/top-stories/2008/02/01/deep-freeze#comments Top Stories B.C. mining industry candente resource corp. deep freeze joanne freeze mineral exploration and development profile rocks Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:17:37 -0800 <p>By Susan Hollis</p> 1845 at http://www.bcbusinessonline.ca