Toronto, Ontario GREG ISENOR APPOINTED PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF ROSCAN The Board of Directors of Roscan Minerals Corporation (“ Roscan” or the “ Company”) (TSX-V: ROS.H) is pleased to announce that Gregory Isenor (P. Geo) has been appointed President and Chief
ROSCAN MINERALS CORPORATION
365 Bay Street, Suite 400
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 30, 2017
Toronto, Ontario
GREG ISENOR APPOINTED PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF ROSCAN
The Board of Directors of Roscan Minerals Corporation (“ Roscan” or the “ Company”) (TSX-V:
ROS.H) is pleased to announce that Gregory Isenor (P. Geo) has been appointed President and Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of the Company. Mr. Isenor w as an integral part of the teams that discovered
gold deposits in West Africa and his expertise significantly advances the Company’s objective of
becoming a successful gold exploration company focused on West Africa.
Mr. Isenor is a professional geologist and businessma n. Mr. Isenor holds a B.Sc. geology, (1970) from
Acadia University and is a member of the Associat ion of Professional Geologists of Nova Scotia. Since
1970, Mr. Isenor’s career path has been augmented by working for various companies on exploration
projects in the energy and mineral resource industries.
Recently, Mr. Isenor was President, CEO and Dire ctor (2005 to 2017) of Merrex Gold Inc., up until
Merrex was taken over by Iamgold Corporation. During that time, Merrex discovered two significant gold
deposits in Mali (West Africa): the Siribaya deposit; and, with joint venture partner Iamgold, the Diakha
deposit. To date, these two deposits represent a comb ined resource approaching approximately 2 million
ounces of gold.
Previously, Mr. Isenor was the President, CEO and Director (2003 to 2005) of Jilbey Gold Exploration
Ltd., until Jilbey was acquired by High River Gold Min es Limited. During Mr. Isenor’s time with Jilbey.
Mr. Isenor led the team that identified the Bissa gold deposit in Burkina Faso (West Africa), which was
placed into production by Nord Gold SE and has a reported resource exceeding 5 million ounces of gold.
In addition, from 1979 – 2003, Mr. Isenor worked as an independent consul ting geologist on mineral
exploration projects in Canada, the United States, Au stralia, New Zealand, Asia and Africa. As well, Mr.
Isenor founded: Jubilee Minerals In c, to develop the Jubilee zinc de posit; and, Glencoe Resources Inc. to
develop the Glencoe limestone deposit. Both of these deposits are located in Nova Scotia, Canada.
To accommodate Mr. Isenor’s appointment, Mr. Chri s Irwin resigned as President and CEO. Mr. Irwin
remains as a director of the Company.
About Roscan Minerals Corporation
Roscan is a Canadian-based mini ng company focused on the exploration of gold properties in West
Africa. Roscan's initial prospective gold exploration property is the Dormaa Project in Ghana, a joint
venture with Pelangio Exploration Inc., whereby the Company has an option to earn a 50% interest by
spending Cdn $2 million over a 3 year period. In additi on to Mr. Isenor, two Roscan directors, Mr. David
Mosher and Mr. Don Whalen, led High River Gold Mines Limited, where High River discovered and
built the Taparko Gold Mine in Burkina Faso (West Africa). The Company’s shares are listed on the NEX
board of the TSX Venture Exchange, trading under the symbol ROS.H
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