Lion One Appoints Jeffrey Edelen as Vice President Corporate Development, Grants Options
Lion One Appoints Jeffrey Edelen as Vice
President Corporate Development, Grants
Options
North Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - September 3, 2022) -
Lion One Metals Limited
(TSXV: LIO) (OTCQX: LOMLF) (ASX: LLO)
("Lion One" or the "Company")
is pleased to announce
the appointment of Mr. Jeffrey Edelen as the Company's new Vice-President, Corporate Development.
Mr. Jeffrey Edelen has 16 years of experience as an economic geologist focusing on prospect
generation, royalty evaluation, and project development. He started his career with Midway Gold Corp.
and continued work at the Spring Valley deposit with the Midway-Barrick Gold Corporation JV through
2009.
He subsequently researched gold systems at the Colorado School of Mines and later added
seven years of experience in senior roles with companies such as Full Metal Minerals, Esperanza Silver,
Revolution Resources, and Osisko Mining before joining EMX Royalty Corp. (EMX) in 2014. As a Senior
Geologist at EMX he helped develop world-class portfolios in multiple jurisdictions for gold, copper,
base metal, and battery metal assets.
In addition to prospect generation, Jeffrey has extensive
experience in royalty generation and evaluation, strategic investments, and value creation throughout the
broader industry of economic geology. As the Manager of Project Marketing at EMX, Jeff developed an
excellent reputation within an extensive network of decision makers world-wide.
Having been exposed to
multiple facets of this industry, Jeff will be an excellent addition to an impressive team at Lion One
Metals.
Lion One CEO, Walter Berukoff, commented, "Mr. Edelen has expertise in generative exploration and
project development with both major mining and junior exploration companies. His geological
experience includes excellent knowledge of alkaline gold systems, and his business acumen will be of
great value to Lion One."
Mr. Edelen holds undergraduate degrees in Spanish Language and Physical Geology from the
University of Idaho (2005), and a Master's degree in Economic Geology from the Colorado School of
Mines.
Grant of Stock Options
The Company also advises that an aggregate of 4,540,000 stock options have been granted to various
directors, officers, employees, and consultants of the Company, subject to TSX-V approval. The options
are exercisable into common shares of the Company at a price of $1.25 per share, expiring five years
from the date of grant, on September 3, 2027. One third of the options will vest upon grant, with one third
vesting annually thereafter until fully vested.
About Lion One Metals Limited
Lion One's flagship asset is 100% owned, fully permitted high grade Tuvatu Alkaline Gold Project,
located on the island of Viti Levu in Fiji. Lion One envisions a low-cost high-grade underground gold
mining operation at Tuvatu coupled with exciting exploration upside inside its tenements covering the
entire Navilawa Caldera, an underexplored yet highly prospective 7km diameter alkaline gold system.
Lion One's CEO Walter Berukoff leads an experienced team of explorers and mine builders and has
owned or operated over 20 mines in 7 countries.
As the founder and former CEO of Miramar Mines,
Northern Orion, and La Mancha Resources, Walter is credited with building over $3 billion of value for
shareholders.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of
Lion One Metals Limited
"
Walter Berukoff
"
Chairman and CEO
For further information
Contact Investor Relations
Toll Free (North America) Tel: 1-855-805-1250
Email:
Website:
www.liononemetals.com
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Service Provider
accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This press release may contain statements that may be deemed to be "forward-looking statements"
within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than
statements of historical fact, included herein are forward-looking information. Generally, forward-
looking information may be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans",
"expects" or "does not expect", "proposed", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates",
"forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words
and phrases, or by the use of words or phrases which state that certain actions, events or results may,
could, would, or might occur or be achieved. This forward-looking information reflects Lion One Metals
Limited's current beliefs and is based on information currently available to Lion One Metals Limited
and on assumptions Lion One Metals Limited believes are reasonable. These assumptions include,
but are not limited to, the actual results of exploration projects being equivalent to or better than
estimated results in technical reports, assessment reports, and other geological reports or prior
exploration results. Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties
and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of
Lion One Metals Limited or its subsidiaries to be materially different from those expressed or implied
by such forward-looking information. Such risks and other factors may include, but are not limited to:
the stage development of Lion One Metals Limited, general business, economic, competitive,
political and social uncertainties; the actual results of current research and development or
operational activities; competition; uncertainty as to patent applications and intellectual property
rights; product liability and lack of insurance; delay or failure to receive board or regulatory approvals;
changes in legislation, including environmental legislation, affecting mining, timing and availability of
external financing on acceptable terms; not realizing on the potential benefits of technology;
conclusions of economic evaluations; and lack of qualified, skilled labour or loss of key individuals.
Although Lion One Metals Limited has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other
factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Accordingly, readers should
not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Lion One Metals Limited does not undertake
to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
To view the source version of this press release, please visit
https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/135930