Golden Predator announces Gold Medal Yukon Geological Staff for 2010
March 02 2010 - 11:38AM
PR Newswire (US)
VANCOUVER, March 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Golden Predator
Royalty & Development Corp. (TSX:GPD) (the "Company") is
pleased to announce the appointments of Corwin Coe as Manager,
Technical Services, Bruce Otto as Senior Structural Geologist,
Joanna Hodge as Yukon Exploration Manager, and Fredy Marino and
Erin O'Brien as Yukon Project Geologists. "These talented
individuals greatly enhance our existing technical staff and our
capabilities in the Yukon, as well as Nevada," commented William M.
Sheriff, Chairman and CEO. "We are very fortunate to add these
quality professionals to our elite geo-technical staff." Mr. Corwin
Coe, AScT, BSc, PGeo Manager, Technical Services Mr. Coe has over
30 years experience in the minerals industry including 18 years of
senior officer experience with public mining companies and more
than 25 years experience in gold and silver mineral exploration,
development and production in North America. Mr. Coe's previous
responsibilities include serving as Vice President of Exploration
for Northern Freegold Resources Ltd. where he oversaw in excess of
$20,000,000 of exploration expenditures incurred exploring for and
defining intrusion related and epithermal gold deposits, as well as
a newly discovered copper gold porphyry, all within the prolific
Tintina Gold Belt. Mr. Coe spent much of his career working for a
variety of companies in the Yukon, and has also held various senior
and management level positions in development and production of
both open pit and underground mining in the southwest US. Mr. Coe
is a Professional Geologist and Mining Engineering Technologist. He
graduated from Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor of Science
degree in Earth Sciences and the British Columbia Institute of
Technology with a Diploma in Mining Engineering Technology. He is a
member of the Association of Professional Engineers and
Geoscientists of British Columbia and the Association of Applied
Science Technologists and Technicians of British Columbia. He is
also a member of the Society of Economic Geologists and the
Geological Association of Canada. As Manager of Technical Services,
Mr. Coe will be based in Vancouver and Whitehorse and will be
instrumental in aggressively advancing the Company's large gold
property position in the Yukon. He will also provide direction in
implementing the Company's plans to develop underground high grade
production in Nevada, and assisting in managerial and corporate
roles. Mr. Bruce R. Otto, BSc, MSc, PGeo Senior Structural
Geologist Mr. Otto brings a strong background as a structural
geologist for mineral resource exploration and development. He has
worked for a variety of companies throughout western North America.
Since 2004 he has concentrated on gold and silver deposits in
Alaska, British Columbia and the Yukon principally with NovaGold
Resources Inc. where he was Senior Geologist. Mr. Otto's work in
the Alligator Ridge district in White Pine County, Nevada (where
Golden Predator has significant royalty interests) resulted in the
discovery of additional blind resources. Mr. Otto specializes in
structural analysis and mapping in a variety of geological
environments including intrusion-related gold systems, massive
sulphide deposits, alkalic gold systems in BC and Montana, vein
silver deposits in the Yukon, Blackbird-type Cu-Co deposits, and
sedimentary and volcanic hosted gold deposits in Nevada. Mr. Otto
has authored various technical studies published by Economic
Geology, Nevada Bureau of Mines, Arizona Geological Society Digest,
Idaho Geological Survey and the US Geological Survey. Mr. Otto
graduated from the University of Montana with a Master of Science
in Geology. He is a CPG-AIPG, a PGeo in British Columbia, a
Registered Professional Geologist in the states of Idaho and
Washington, and a Certified Professional Geologist in Alaska. Mr.
Otto's responsibilities with Golden Predator will include
structural analysis, interpretation and structural overview of the
Company's projects in Nevada and the Yukon. His first efforts will
be directed to the structural setting of the deeper mineralization
at the Company's Brewery Creek project. Structural interpretation
is integral to the discovery of deep resources at Brewery Creek and
will be an invaluable tool assisting the Company's drill campaigns
in the Yukon as well as Nevada. Ms. Joanna Hodge, BSc, MSc (Hons)
Yukon Exploration Manager Ms. Hodge has over 12 years of experience
in mineral exploration and resource development in New Zealand,
Australia and Canada. Prior to joining Golden Predator, Ms. Hodge
was Senior Exploration Geologist for Copper Ridge Explorations
Inc., planning and managing their gold, copper, copper-gold and
uranium exploration programs in British Columbia and the Yukon. Her
expertise includes the design and implementation of mineral
exploration and ore definition programs including the management of
multi-drill campaigns as well as geological and geochemical
exploration surveys in sub-arctic regions. In the 2009 field
season, Ms Hodge directed Golden Predator's highly successful Gold
(Scheelite) Dome exploration program and also oversaw field
programs at the Company's Brewery Creek and Antimony Mountain
projects. Ms. Hodge holds a BSc and MSc (Hons) from Auckland
University in New Zealand, and is awaiting conferral of her
Doctorate from the University of Western Australia, where she
completed her PhD research on gold-related hydrothermal fluid
geochemistry. As Yukon Exploration Manager, Ms. Hodge is based in
Vancouver and Whitehorse, and is responsible for managing
exploration on Golden Predator's extensive portfolio of properties
in the Yukon. In addition, Ms. Hodge will continue in her role as
the senior geologist for the Company's Gold (Scheelite) Dome
project. Mr. Fredy Marino, BSc, MS, MSc - Geology Project Geologist
Mr. Marino joins Golden Predator from Eurasian Minerals where he
served as a field exploration Geologist in Haiti. Mr. Marino brings
more than 14 years of mineral exploration experience to the Company
that includes consulting or staff positions with Victoria Gold
Corp., Largo Resources Ltd., Newmont Mining Corporation, Bema Gold
Corp., Geoinformatics Exploration and others. His specialties
include field mapping, underground mapping, ore deposit exploration
and evaluation, with significant experience in the Yukon and
Nevada. He has also been involved in exploration projects in
numerous areas around the World including Mexico, Mongolia, Alaska,
Siberia, Colombia, and Argentina. Mr. Marino holds a Master of
Science in geology from Mackay School of Mines at the University of
Nevada, Reno, and a Professional Master in Mineral Exploration from
ITC, Delft in the Netherlands. He also conducted PhD studies in
Natural/Mineral resources at the University of Quebec in
Chicoutimi. Mr. Marino will be assigned to the Company's Yukon
exploration office where he will be the Project Geologist for the
Eureka project in the White Gold area and the Antimony Mountain
project north of Brewery Creek. Ms. Erin O'Brien, BSc, MSc, PGeo
Project Geologist Ms. O'Brien has a diverse background in mineral
exploration spanning 15 years. She has worked for various
consulting firms including Caracle Creek International Consultants
Inc., Golder Associates Ltd. and Morrow Environmental (SNC-Lavalin
Environment Inc.) She has contracted for various junior and mid
tier explorers including Stornoway Diamond Corporation, Canabrava
Diamond Corporation, and Pacific Booker Minerals Inc. Her expertise
includes Quaternary geology, regional reconnaissance exploration
and managing drill programs. Ms. O'Brien holds a Master of Science
in Geology from the University of New Brunswick and a Bachelor of
Science in Geology and Environmental Studies from McGill
University. In 2001, she became registered as a professional
geoscientist with the Association of Professional Engineers and
Geoscientists of British Columbia. Ms. O'Brien joins Golden
Predator as a full-time Project Geologist after successfully
completing contract work on the Company's Antimony Mountain,
Brewery Creek, and Gold (Scheelite) Dome projects in 2009. Ms.
O'Brien will be responsible for the Company's Clear Creek project.
About Golden Predator Royalty & Development Corp. Golden
Predator's corporate mandate is to establish a self-funded gold
company focused on the Yukon, Canada. Golden Predator has
established an industry leading gold property position in the Yukon
and is aggressively exploring its Gold (Scheelite) Dome, Eureka,
Antimony Mountain, Clear Creek and Brewery Creek projects with
drilling planned on all 5 projects during 2010. Golden Predator is
advancing its Adelaide project in Nevada with underground drilling
and bulk sampling planned. Further drilling is planned at Golden
Ridge and Lantern to potentially provide near term production of
small-tonnage high grade ores. Golden Predator intends, through its
strategic use of modular mills at its Taylor and Humboldt mill
sites, to become a gold producer capable of funding its Yukon
program. In addition, Golden Predator currently receives in excess
of $1.0 M per year from its royalty stream. No stock exchange,
securities commission or other regulatory authority has approved or
disapproved the information contained herein. This press release
contains projections and forward-looking information that involve
various risks and uncertainties regarding future events. Such
forward-looking information can include without limitation
statements based on current expectations involving a number of
risks and uncertainties and are not guarantees of future
performance. There are numerous risks and uncertainties that could
cause actual results and Golden Predator's plans and objectives to
differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking
information. Actual results and future events could differ
materially from those anticipated in such information. These and
all subsequent written and oral forward-looking information are
based on estimates and opinions of management on the dates they are
made and are expressly qualified in their entirety by this notice.
Except as required by law, Golden Predator assumes no obligation to
update forward-looking information should circumstances or
management's estimates or opinions change. DATASOURCE: Golden
Predator Royalty & Development Corp. CONTACT: Golden Predator
Royalty & Development Corp., InvestorRelations, (604) 648-GOLD
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