Liberty Gold’s VP Exploration and Geoscience, Dr. Moira Smith, Receives The 2019 AME Colin Spence Award for Her Essential Contribution to the Discovery of the Long Canyon Gold Deposit, Nevada
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NEWS RELEASE 20-03 January 23, 2020
Liberty Gold’s VP Exploration and Geoscience, Dr. Moira Smith, Receives The 2019 AME
Colin Spence Award for Her Essential Contribution to the Discovery of the Long Canyon
Gold Deposit, Nevada
VANCOUVER, B.C. – Liberty Gold Corp. (LGD-TSX) (“Liberty Gold” or the “Company”) is pleased
to announce that Dr. Moira Smith is the recipient of the Association for Mineral Exploration 2019
Colin Spence Award for her role in the discovery and delineation of the high-grade Long Canyon
gold deposit in Nevada, U.S.
The Colin Spence Award is a prestigious Canadian Mining industry award, recognizing Excellence
in Global Mineral Exploration. It is awarded to those who have made a significant contribution to
enhance the mineral resources within Canada or in foreign countries through the original
application of prospecting techniques or other geoscience technology.
“We are thrilled to see Dr. Moira Smith receive this exciting award. Very few teams make a
mineral discovery that becomes an operating mine especially one as high grade as Long Canyon,”
stated Dr. Mark O’Dea, Chairman of Liberty Gold and former CEO of Fronteer Gold Inc. “Moira, as
the technical leader of Fronteer Gold’s Long Canyon team, countered conventional thinking to
advance a project long ignored because the location and geology were considered wrong.
Focused on geological first principles, Moira created a new geological model for this part of
eastern Nevada that guided the full discovery and delineation of the multi-million ounce, high-
grade, Carlin-style Long Canyon, gold deposit, which recently completed its third year of
commercial production by Newmont.”
ABOUT LIBERTY GOLD
Liberty Gold is focused on exploring the Great Basin of the United States, home to large-scale gold
projects that are ideal for open-pit mining. This region is one of the most prolific gold-producing
regions in the world and stretches across Nevada and into Idaho and Utah. We know the Great
Basin and are driven to discover and advance big gold deposits that can be mined profitably in
open-pit scenarios. Our flagship projects are Black Pine in Idaho and Goldstrike in Utah, both past
producing open-pit mines, where previous operators only scratched the surface.
For more information, visit www.libertygold.ca or contact:
Susie Bell, Manager, Investor Relations
Phone: 604-632-4677 or Toll Free 1-877-632-4677