VANCOUVER, BC, July 10, 2023 /CNW/ - Gr Silver Mining Ltd (GRSL.CA) – today announces several Board and Management changes aiming to position the Company for continued growth under current market conditions.
The Company has accepted the resignation of Mr. Gino DeMichele for personal reasons from its Board of Directors. Mr. DeMichele has been a director of the Company and its predecessor company since April 2017, providing highly valuable guidance and support over the many years. GR Silver Mining welcomes the addition of two new directors to its Board of Directors, Mr. Fernando Berdegué de Cima and Mr. Trevor Woolfe.
Mr. Berdegué is a Mazatlán-based entrepreneur with a BA Degree in Financial Management from Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey and a Masters Degree in International Management from Instituto de Empresas (IE) Business School in Madrid, Spain. He is a Founding Partner and CEO of Durango Gold Corp., a private US-based mining exploration company, and was a Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor to Tonogold Resources, Inc., which consolidated the historic Comstock Lode in Nevada and where he proposed an innovative multidisciplinary approach for exploration. He brings to the Company a diverse range of education, experiences, and interests including law and humanities, environment, sustainability, governance, venture capital, and responsible mining, including extensive experience in Mexican business as a Member of the Advisory Board of the family business, El Cid Mega Resorts, in Mazatlán, Sinaloa Mexico. Mr. Berdegué, together with current director Laura Diaz, strengthens the board's knowledge and experience in carrying out business in Mexico.
Mr. Woolfe is well-known to GR Silver Mining as the Company's former Vice President Exploration and Corporate Development. He joined the Company in July 2018 and had been an important member of the geological team as our understanding of mineralization at the Plomosas Project and, consequently, our mineral resource inventory, grew. He was key, together with current exploration management, to the discovery of the SE Area, supporting the Company's resource growth over the last three years. Mr. Woolfe left the Company to return to his native Australia as announced in the news release dated June 14, however, his deep knowledge of all operations and assets of the Company in Mexico will provide valuable knowledge and experience to support strategic planning in the coming months. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree, majoring in geology, from Monash University (Australia). Prior to joining GR Silver Mining, he brought 25 years of exploration, mining, and public company management experience, including positions with Australian companies CRA, Metana Minerals NL and Newcrest Mining Limited, as well as four years with Canadian major, Placer Dome in Chile and Brazil. He is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Australian Institute of Geoscientists, a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and holds a Graduate Certificate in Applied Finance and Investment (SIA).
In addition, the Company announces that it has accepted the resignation of its Chief Financial Officer, Ms. Samantha Shorter for personal reasons. Ms. Shorter was appointed CFO in May 2023. Mr. Blaine Bailey, the Company's former CFO who retired in May 2023 (see news release dated May 5, 2023), has agreed to return to the Company as Interim CFO with Ms. Shorter's continued support.
Chair of the Board of Directors Eric Zaunscherb, stated, "On behalf of the Board of Directors, the management, and the Company's shareholders, I wish to thank Gino DeMichele for his exceptional support since the Company's inception. Thank you also to Samantha Shorter for her recent contributions. I wish them both all the best in their future endeavours. I am very pleased to welcome Blaine Bailey back in the role of CFO, knowing the Company intimately as he does. Finally, we are honoured to have Fernando Berdegué and Trevor Woolfe joining our board. Fernando brings an intimate understanding of the Mexican business milieu and a passion for developing Mexican mining assets in a responsible manner, while Trevor's knowledge and experience and recent discovery of the SE Area, will provide valuable input in the strategic planning and growth of resources at the Plomosas Project."
About the Plomosas Project
The Plomosas Project, including the recent high-grade silver SE Area discovery in the San Marcial Area, is an emerging high-grade silver district located in southern Sinaloa, Mexico. The Plomosas Project, covering 43,187 ha, benefits from mine infrastructure, road access and existing permits, associated with past-producing historical mining sites. The district contains intermediate to low sulphidation epithermal silver and gold mineralization hosted in hydrothermal breccias and veins. Recent success in exploration and drilling has delineated wide, high-grade, shallow hydrothermal breccias in the San Marcial Area, including the SE Area discovery, where drilling incorporated into the updated March 2023 Plomosas Project mineral resource estimation highlighted an exploration opportunity for continuous resource growth.
About GR Silver Mining Ltd.
GR Silver Mining is a Canadian-based, Mexico-focused junior mineral exploration company engaged in cost effective silver-gold resource expansion on its 100%-owned assets, located on the eastern edge of the Rosario Mining District, in the southeast of Sinaloa State, Mexico. GR Silver Mining controls 100% of two past producer precious metal underground and open pit mines, within the expanded Plomosas Project, which includes the integrated San Marcial Area and La Trinidad acquisition. In conjunction with a portfolio of early to advanced stage exploration targets, the Company holds 734 km2 of concessions containing several structural corridors totaling over 75 km in strike length.
不列顛哥倫比亞省溫哥華,2023 年 7 月 10 日 /CNW/- Gr Silver Mining Ltd (GRSL.CA)——今天宣佈了幾項董事會和管理層變動,旨在使公司在當前市場條件下實現持續增長。
公司已接受Gino DeMichele先生因個人原因辭去董事會職務。DeMicHele 先生自 2017 年 4 月起擔任公司及其前身公司的董事,多年來提供非常寶貴的指導和支持。GR Silver Mining歡迎董事會增加兩位新董事,費爾南多·伯德格·德西瑪先生和特雷弗·伍爾夫先生。
Berdegué先生是一位居住在馬薩特蘭的企業家,擁有蒙特雷理工學院的財務管理學士學位和西班牙馬德里企業學院(IE)商學院的國際管理碩士學位。他是總部位於美國的私營採礦勘探公司Durango Gold Corp. 的創始合夥人兼首席執行官,也是Tonogold Resources, Inc. 的聯合創始人兼戰略顧問,該公司整合了內華達州歷史悠久的康斯托克礦脈,並提出了一種創新的多學科勘探方法。他爲公司帶來了各種教育、經驗和興趣,包括法律和人文學科、環境、可持續發展、治理、風險投資和負責任的採礦,包括作爲位於墨西哥錫那羅亞州馬薩特蘭的家族企業El Cid Mega Resorts顧問委員會成員在墨西哥商業方面的豐富經驗。Berdegué先生與現董事勞拉·迪亞茲一起增強了董事會在墨西哥開展業務的知識和經驗。
衆所周知,伍爾夫先生是GR Silver Mining的前勘探和企業發展副總裁。他於2018年7月加入公司,隨着我們對Plomosas項目礦化的瞭解以及隨之而來的礦產資源庫存的增加,他一直是地質團隊的重要成員。他與目前的勘探管理層一起,是發現東南地區的關鍵,爲公司在過去三年中的資源增長提供了支持。正如6月14日的新聞稿所宣佈的那樣,伍爾夫先生離開公司返回家鄉澳大利亞,但是,他對公司在墨西哥的所有運營和資產的深入瞭解將爲未來幾個月的戰略規劃提供寶貴的知識和經驗。他擁有莫納什大學(澳大利亞)主修地質學的理學學士(榮譽)學位。在加入GR Silver Mining之前,他擁有25年的勘探、採礦和上市公司管理經驗,包括在澳大利亞公司CRA、Metana Minerals NL和Newcrest Mining Limited任職,以及在智利和巴西的加拿大巨頭Placer Dome工作了四年。他是澳大利亞礦業和冶金學會、澳大利亞地球科學家學會會員,畢業於澳大利亞公司董事協會,並持有應用金融與投資研究生證書 (SIA)。
此外,公司宣佈,出於個人原因,已接受其首席財務官薩曼莎·肖特女士的辭職。肖特女士於 2023 年 5 月被任命爲首席財務官。公司前首席財務官布萊恩·貝利先生於2023年5月退休(見2023年5月5日的新聞稿),在肖特女士的持續支持下,他已同意重返公司擔任臨時首席財務官。
董事會主席埃裏克·贊舍爾布表示:“我謹代表董事會、管理層和公司股東感謝Gino DeMichele自公司成立以來給予的大力支持。還要感謝薩曼莎·肖特最近的貢獻。我祝願他們倆在今後的努力中一切順利。我很高興歡迎布萊恩·貝利重返首席財務官一職,他和他一樣非常瞭解公司。最後,我們很榮幸有費爾南多·伯德格和特雷弗·伍爾夫加入我們的董事會。費爾南多對墨西哥的商業環境有着深入的瞭解,並熱衷於以負責任的方式開發墨西哥的礦業資產,而特雷弗的知識和經驗以及最近對東南地區的發現,將爲Plomosas項目的戰略規劃和資源增長提供寶貴的投入。”
關於 Plomosas 項目
Plomosas項目,包括最近在聖馬西亞爾地區發現的高品位白銀,是位於墨西哥錫那羅亞州南部的新興高品位銀區。Plomosas項目佔地43,187公頃,受益於礦山基礎設施、道路通道和與過去生產的歷史採礦遺址相關的現有許可證。該地區含有中等至低硫化的淺熱液銀和金礦化,存在於熱液角礫岩和礦脈中。最近在勘探和鑽探方面的成功描繪了聖馬西亞爾地區寬闊、高品位、淺層的熱液角礫岩,包括東南地區的發現,在2023年3月更新的Plomosas項目礦產資源估算中,鑽探凸顯了資源持續增長的勘探機會。
關於GR Silver Mining
GR Silver Mining是一家總部位於加拿大、專注於墨西哥的初級礦產勘探公司,利用其100%擁有的資產進行具有成本效益的銀金資源擴張,該資產位於墨西哥錫那羅亞州東南部羅薩里奧礦區的東部邊緣。GR Silver Mining在擴建後的Plomosas項目中控制着過去兩個生產商的貴金屬地下和露天礦的100%,其中包括對聖馬西亞爾區和拉特立尼達的綜合收購。除了早期到高級階段的勘探目標組合外,該公司還持有734平方公里的特許權,其中包括幾條總走向長度超過75公里的結構走廊。