Northern Graphite Announces Senior Management Appointments
Northern Graphite Announces Senior
Management Appointments
Ottawa, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - March 22, 2023) - Northern Graphite Corporation
(TSXV: NGC)
(OTCQB: NGPHF) (FSE: 0NG) (XSTU: 0NG)
(the "
Company
" or "
Northern
") is pleased to announce
senior management appointments that will enhance the Company's global team as it executes on its
goal of becoming a world leader in the production of natural graphite and upgrading it into value added
products critical to the green economy. Ms. Kirsty Liddicoat has been appointed Chief Operating Officer
("COO") of the Company. She brings more than 18 years of global mining experience to the team. Mr.
Dave Marsh, who has more than 40 years of global experience, has been named Chief Technical Officer
("CTO").
Kirsty Liddicoat is a mine geologist with a Masters in Business, Implementation Management and a
Masters in Mining Engineering, Mining Geomechanics. Kirsty was most recently the General Manager of
Red Lake Operations for Evolution Mining in northwestern Ontario. She was previously the General
Manager, Geoservices and Mine Planning for Suncor Energy and held management positions with BHP
Coal, Copperchem Limited and Focus Minerals. Kirsty started her career in Australia with Rio Tinto, has
experience in South America and immigrated to Canada in 2019; she will be based in Montreal. She is
a member of the 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining in the inaugural 2013 list, and the 2018
recipient of the Chief Executive Women scholarship to INSEAD.
Kirsty Liddicoat
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Dave Marsh, who joined Northern Graphite in 2022, has 40 years of combined experience managing the
process engineering divisions of international consulting and operating companies. He has led mining
projects from the scoping level through to feasibility, construction and operations. He has extensive
experience with operations in southern Africa, including Namibia.
As CTO, Dave will lead the Company's
global Technical Operations.
Hugues Jacquemin CEO of Northern Graphite commented: "We are delighted to welcome Kirsty to our
team, she brings a wealth of mining experience as we embark on our own mine development in Ontario,
Quebec and Namibia. She will be a key contributor supporting our transformation into become the
world's leading graphite mining and processing company."
About Northern Graphite
Northern is a Canadian, TSXV listed company that is focused on becoming a world leader in producing
natural graphite and upgrading it into high value products critical to the green economy including anode
material for lithium ion batteries/EVs, fuel cells and graphene, as well as advanced industrial
technologies.
Northern is the only significant graphite producing company in North America and will become the third
largest outside of China when its Namibian operations come back online in 2024.
The Company also
has two large scale development projects, Bissett Creek in Ontario and Okanjande in Namibia, that will
be a source of continued production growth in the future. All projects have "battery quality" graphite and
are located close to infrastructure in politically stable countries.
For additional information
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among others, the Company's intentions with respect to bringing its Namibian operations back on line
and to advancing its other development projects to production, and developing the capacity to
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