New Energy Metals Announces the Appointment of Dr. TOM Henricksen to the Board of Advisors
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NEW ENERGY METALS ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF
DR. TOM HENRICKSEN TO THE BOARD OF ADVISORS
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Vancouver, B.C. – New Energy Metals Corp. ("New Energy Metals" or the "Company")
(TSX.V:ENRG) (OTC:NEMCF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Tom Henricksen,
BSc, Ph.D.Geo to its Board of Advisors. A field geologist with five decades of experience,
Dr. Henricksen is the recipient of the Association for Mineral Exploration of British Columbia's
2018 Colin Spence Award for Excellence in Global Mineral Explor ation. Dr. Henricksen
received the prestigious award in recognition of his outstandin g contributions to mineral
discovery, and for being involved in some monumental discoveries and/or acquisitions across the
world.
The Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Plan B Minerals Corp . , a m i n e r a l e x p l o r a t i o n
company focused on high-grade gol d and copper assets, Dr. Henri cksen has successfully worked
on 40 mineral exploration projec ts in over 14 countries on 6 co ntinents, including field work for
New Energy Metals. In 2012, Dr. Henricksen served as Vice Presi dent of Exploration for
Aegean Metals Group Inc., leading the senior field team in iden tifying, evaluating and acquiring
two high-grade gold-copper prospects (VMS Hot Maden and Ergama) in Turkey. Prior to this,
Dr. Henricksen served as senio r field geologist for Apoquindo M inerals Inc. (TSXV:AQM),
which won a bid from Teck Resources to explore and develop a co pper-gold deposit (Zafranal)
in Peru, resulting in more than 400 million tons of copper.
In addition to many other successful exploration projects, Dr. Henricksen served as a member of
the Arctic exploration team that successfully identified the Re d Dog mine in Alaska, now the
world's largest zinc reserves. Operated by Teck Resources in pa rtnership with NANA
Development Corporation, Red Dog's gross profit in 2017 was $97 1 million. Before this, Dr.
Henricksen led efforts to secure the Eskay Creek mine for US Bo rax Inc. (a subsidiary of Rio
Tinto), which, during the period of Dr. Henricksen's involvemen t, became the world's highest-
grade gold mine and the fifth largest silver mine by volume.
Dr. Henricksen holds a BSc in Geology from the University of Wi sconsin, and a Ph.D. in
Economic Geology from Oregon State University.
"I am delighted to welcome Tom to the Board of Advisors," comme nted César López, President
and CEO of New Energy Metals. "Tom and I have been involved in a number of successful
projects together over the years, and the fact that he was awar ded the Colin Spence Award for
Excellence in Global Mineral Exploration by AMEBC on January 9, 2019 only proves what I
already knew – that Tom is one of the best and most talented ge ologists in the business. He's a
welcome addition to the New Energy Metals team."
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"César and I have worked together on many successful projects t hroughout my career and I
welcome the opportunity to join the Board of Advisors. The emerging energy metals market is an
exciting place to be working right now and I look forward to wh at we will accomplish," added
Dr. Henricksen.
About the Company
New Energy Metals is focused on the exploration and development of energy metals in Chile.
The Company's assets include the Cristal copper project located in northern Chile and several
prospective cobalt projects in Chile's past producing San Juan cobalt district.
On behalf of New Energy Metals Corp.
César López, President & CEO
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This news release contains forward-looki ng statements and forwar d-looking information
(collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian and U.S.
securities legislation, including th e United States Private Securi ties Litigation Reform Act of
1995. All statements, other than st atements of historical fact, included herein including, without
limitation, the Dr. Henricksen will be able to contribute to the Company, anticipated results from
exploration activities, and the anticipated busine ss plans and timing of future activities of the
Company, are forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes that such statements
are reasonable, it can give no assurance that su ch expectations will prove to be correct.
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Forward-looking statements invo lve known and unknown risks, unc ertainties and other factors
which may cause the actual results, performan ce or achievements of the Company to differ
materially from any future results, perform ance or achievements expressed or implied by the
forward-looking statements. Such risks and othe r factors include, among others, actual results
of exploration activities, the fact that the Com pany’s interests in its mineral properties are only
options and there is no guarantee that the interests, if earned, will be certain, requirements for
additional capital, future prices of precious metals, copper and cobalt, changes in general
economic conditions, changes in the financial ma rkets and in the demand and market price for
commodities, other risks of the mining indust ry, the inability to obtain any necessary
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governmental and regulatory approvals (including of the TSX Venture Exchange), changes in
laws, regulations and policies affecting mini ng operations, hedging practices and currency
fluctuations, as well as those factors discusse d under the heading "Risks and Uncertainties" in
the Company's most recent management's disc ussion and analysis and other filings of the
Company with the Canadian Secu rities Authorities, copies of which can be found under the
Company's profile on the SEDAR website at www.sedar.com.
Readers are cautioned not to pl ace undue reliance on forward-look ing statements. Except as
otherwise required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update any of the forward-
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