ON THE MOVEAUGUST 2020 | VOLUME 1 | I SSUE 7

Executive, Management and Board Changes in Canada’s Mining Sector

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Ewan Downie

Ewan Downie has joined the board of Clean Air Metals. Downie has served as the president and CEO of Premier Gold Mines since the company’s inception in 2006. He has over 25 years of experience in the exploration and mining industries, founded Wolfden Resources and has been involved with a number of gold and base metal discoveries. Downie is the 2003 recipient of the PDAC’s Bill Dennis Prospector of the Year award.

Shawn Hood

Shawn Hood is now the chief technology officer (CTO) of GoldSpot Discoveries, a company using artificial intelligence to generate exploration targets. Hood is a professional geoscientist with 15 years of exploration and mining experience. In the new role, he will be in charge of the company’s technology strategy for research and development, project success and data management. Hood was most recently the company’s VP of technical services.

Patrick Anderson has been appointed chairman of Strongbow Exploration’s board. Anderson is currently CEO and a director of Dalradian Resources, and succeeds Grenville Thomas in the chairman role – Thomas remains a director of the company. Anderson was the co-founder, president, CEO and director of Aurelian Resources, which was acquired by Kinross Gold in 2008. He is a geologist with over 20 years of resource sector experience.

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» 66 Resources has named R. Timothy Henneberry as its CEO and a director. Henneberry replaces Michael Dake, who has stepped down as CEO, but will remain a director.

» Graeme Currie is now an advisor to Adamera Minerals.

» Alto Ventures announced that in conjunction with the closing of its merger with Empress Resources, it has made changes to its leadership team. Mike Bandrowski has been appointed president and CEO, following Mike Koziol’s and Richard Mazur’s resignations from the president and CEO roles, respectively. Mazur will remain a director. Mike Bandrowski, David Rhodes, Jeremy Bond and Duncan Gordon have been appointed to the board with Mike Koziol, David Cowan, Gary Zak and Michael Steeves stepping down as directors.

» Andrey Shamis has been appointed interim CEO of Angus Ventures; Shamis, who joined the company’s board in 2017, succeeds Patrick Langlois in this role.

» Miloje Vicentijevic has resigned as Benz Mining’s president and CEO but will remain on the board. Mathew O’Hara, a director of the company, will act as interim CEO.

» Greg Gibson has resigned as the president, CEO, director and chairman of Bonterra Resources. Cesar Gonzalez

has been appointed chairman and Normand Champigny has been named an independent non-executive director.

» Pamela White has been appointed corporate secretary of Bell Copper.

» Oscar Mendoza is now a special advisor, Mexico, for Brigadier Gold.

» Matt Halliday has been promoted to the position of president and COO of Canada Silver Cobalt Works. He will hold this new role in addition to his duties as VP of exploration. Halliday replaces Frank Basa as president; Basa will continue as CEO.

» Christopher Ecclestone is now the president and CEO of Cascadero Copper. Lorne Harder has been named interim CFO and corporate secretary. Ecclestone and Harder are also joining the company’s board. Brian Causey has stepped down as a director.

» Alexandre Belleau has been named COO of Champion Iron Mines - Belleau joined the company in 2016 and most recently was Champion’s general manager of projects and innovation.

» Tony Barresi is now president and a director of Colorado Resources. Barresi was previously president and a director of Triumph Gold, where he continues to serve as a technical advisor and is also a director of ArcWest Exploration.

» Enduro Metals (formerly Crystal Lake Mining) has announced additions to its management and technical team: Dylan Hunko is now the company’s COO; Malcolm Davidson has been named CFO; Deborah Cotter is joining as corporate secretary and John Ryan is now on the technical advisory committee.

» Doug Reddy will transition to the COO role with Equinox Gold at the start of September, once Attie Roux, the company’s current COO, retires.

» John Gammack has been appointed CEO and president of Far Resources, replacing Toby Mayo who will be moving into the position of VP technology development.

» Steve Cashin has joined Fiore Gold as director of technical services. Cashin is the former operations manager at Barrick Gold’s Pueblo Viejo operation in the Dominican Republic.

» Marc Roy is now the CEO and a director of Focus Graphite.

» Richard Patricio has been named president and CEO of Generic Gold following Kelly Malcolm’s resignation. Malcolm will remain a director.

» Mike Sieb has been named president of Getchell Gold; Sieb has been a director of the company since 2018. Stephen Goodman has resigned from his post as the company’s CFO and as a director.

» Darryl Jones has been named the CFO of Goldhaven Resources following Blaine Bailey’s resignation.

» Benoit Moreau has resigned from his post as president and director of Goldstar Minerals. Director Francois Perron will replace Moreau as president. Mathieu Séguin has also resigned from the board.

» Heatherdale Resources has expanded its technical team: Ryan Weymark has joined as VP of project development, Jim Oliver is now a technical advisor and Graham Neale has been named project manager for the Niblack project in Alaska.

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» Paul Crath has been named the interim CEO of Highvista Gold; Janet O’Donnell is now the company’s interim CFO and has joined the board.

» Randy Buffington has stepped down from as chairman, president and CEO of Hycroft Mining. Stephen Jones, the company’s executive VP, CFO and secretary has been appointed interim president and CEO and David Kirsch, a director of the company, is the new chairman. Jeffrey Stieber, VP of finance, has been appointed interim CFO.

» Andre Deepwell has retired as CFO and corporate secretary with Imperial Metals. The company has appointed Darb Dhillon, its current VP of finance, to fill this role.

» Tim Williams is now the COO of Marathon Gold; Williams is a professional engineer with over 25 years of experience in mine construction and operations.

» Marco Roque is now the CEO and a director of Margaux Resources. Tyler Rice will remain the company’s president. Doug Foster has resigned as a director.

» Hayden Locke has been appointed president of Marimaca Copper.

» Jean L’Heureux is now the COO of Mason Graphite.

» Adrian McArthur is now the CEO, president and a director of Meridian Mining with Gilbert Clark stepping down from the interim CEO role; Clark will remain a director.

» Ramiro Massa is now the president and CEO of Minsud Resources following Alberto Orcoyen’s resignation; Orcoyen will continue to serve as a

director. Michael Johnston, the company’s CFO, has also been named corporate secretary with Ramiro Massa stepping down.

» Keith Benn is now the VP of exploration for both Mistango River Resources and Orefinders Resources.

» Mac Jackson has joined New Placer Dome’s advisory board.

» Scott Honan has been promoted to the COO role with NioCorp Developments; Honan joined the company in 2014 as VP of business development.

» Peter Mullens has been appointed VP of business development with NxGold.

» Sean Spraggett is now the general manager, Panama, with Orla Mining.

» Brad George is now the CEO of Orosur Mining, succeeding Ignacio Salazar.

» Ron Stewart has been appointed CEO of Pacific Precious; Stewart is a mining professional with over 30 years

of experience in exploration, project development, operations and capital markets.

» Patrick Godin has joined Pretium Resources as VP and COO; Godin succeeds David Prins, the company’s VP of operations.

» Alex Tsakumis is now the VP of investor relations with Prime Mining.

» Leonardo Elizalde has been named manager of project development with Salazar Resources.

» Perry Durning and Frank Hillemeyer are now technical advisors for Silver Dollar Resources.

» Standard Uranium has added Galen McNamara and Sean Hillacre to its technical team: Hillacre has been named project manager for the upcoming Davidson River drill program and McNamara, the CEO and a director of Summa Silver, has been appointed a technical advisor.

» Ryan Ptolemy is now the CFO of Sulliden Mining

Capital and Wen Ye has been appointed to the company’s board. Deborah Battiston has stepped down as CFO and a director.

» Russell Starr is now the president and CEO of Trillium Gold Mines, with David Velisek resigning as CEO and James Lenec stepping down as president. Velisek will remain on the company’s board while Lenec will serve as VP of business development and as a director.

» Tony Barresi has resigned as president of Triumph Gold and stepped down from the board. Joe Campbell has also resigned as a director. Barresi will continue as a technical advisor to the company and Brian Bower is now the lead director.

» Matthew Roma is now the CFO and corporate secretary of Western Pacific Resources with Eduardo Yu stepping down.

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» Andy Wallace has joined the board of Allegiant Gold.

» Simon Clarke has been appointed to the board of American Lithium. G.A. Binninger is now a special advisor to the board.

» Carsten Korch has been named a director of Asante Gold, following the passing of Florian Riedl-Riedenstein.

» Thomas Sarvas and Timothy Froude have joined the board of Benton Resources.

» Ron Hall and Carlos Escribano have stepped down from the board of Benz Mining. Escribano will continue to act as the company’s CFO.

» Peter O’Malley has been named an independent non-executive director of Bonterra Resources; Allan Folk has resigned from the board.

» Christopher Cheng is now on the board of Canuc Resources.

» Greg Andrews has been appointed to the board of Cascadero Copper.

» Euro Manganese has started a board restructuring process, with strategic advisory roles planned for Roman Shklanka, Harvey McLeod and Daniel Rosicky and two new independent directors envisioned for the board. John Webster, Greg Martyr, David Dreisinger and Marco Romero will continue as directors. Jan Votava will resign as a director, but remain a member of the executive team as managing director of the company’s Czech subsidiary.

» Murray Seitz, a director of Far Resources, has passed away.

» Peter Mullens has stepped down from the board of G2 Goldfields.

» Jim Mustard has joined the board of Getchell Gold.

» Thuso Dikgaka and Maureen Mokgaotsane are now on the board of Giyani Metals’ wholly owned subsidiary in Botswana, Menzi Battery Metals.

» Trace Arlaud is now on the board of Global Atomic.

» Anne Giardini is now a director of K92 Mining.

» Newman Wayne Reid has joined the board of Leocor Ventures, following Charanjit Hayre’s resignation.

» Peter MacPhail has joined the board of Manitou Gold.

Peter Weidmann has retired from Meridian Mining’s board.

» Kevin Small has joined the board of Minera Alamos.

Euler De Souza is now on the board of Nippon Dragon Resources.

» Ian Rice has joined the board of Oroco Resource with CFO Steve Vanry stepping down as a director.

» J.J. Elkin has been appointed to the board of Plato Gold.

» Brian Crawford is now a director of Portofino Resources.

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» Craig Parry is now the chairman of QX Metals’ board. Rod McKeen and John Williamson have resigned from the board.

» Steven Kahn has stepped down from SolidusGold’s board.

» Peter Mitchell has been appointed to the board of Taseko Mines; Richard Mundie and Alex Morrison did not stand for re-election.

» Matthew Quinlan, the interim CFO of Trevali Mining, has been appointed to the board of Noront Resources.

» Thomas Masney is now a director of Orosur Mining, replacing HD Lee.

» Elodie Grant Goodey has joined the board of SolGold.

» Réjean Gosselin has joined UrbanGold Minerals as an independent director.

» Stephen Motteram has stepped down from the board of Xanadu Mines.

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