White Metal Announces Additions to Its Board of Directors
White Metal Announces Additions to Its Board
of Directors
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - May 4, 2022) -
White Metal Resources Corp. (TSXV: WHM)
(FSE: CGK1) (OTC Pink: TNMLF)
("White Metal" or the "Company") is pleased to announce additions
to its Board of Directors.
The Company will appoint two (2) new Directors, including Mr. Wesley Hanson
and Mr. Nigel Lees. In addition, Mr. Warren Bates will become a strategic consultant to the Company.
Dr. Scott Jobin-Bevans, interim President & CEO stated, "We are pleased that Wes Hanson and Nigel
Lees have agreed to bring their considerable experience and leadership to the Board and that Mr.
Warren Bates will consult to the Company as we continue to develop our Tower Mountain Gold property
towards a Tier 1 resource."
Wesley C. (Wes) Hanson P. Geo. has worked continuously in the mining and mineral exploration sector
for forty years. An experienced exploration geologist, his early career included being a member of
professional teams that found, developed and operated over a half dozen, high grade, underground gold
discoveries. Being a member of these small, interdisciplinary team provided an opportunity to round up
his professional experience, serving in the engineering, maintenance, metallurgical and mining
departments both as a labourer and eventually, in supervisory roles. As a result, Mr. Hanson offers a
wealth of hands-on practical experience with a strong background on mineral exploration, resource and
reserve estimation and project evaluation. Later in his career, Mr. Hanson was part of teams that
evaluated, designed and constructed several low grade, large tonnage open pit mines in the Yukon,
Nevada, Chile and Brazil. He served in senior management positions with Kinross Gold and Western
Goldfields (Newgold) where he was primarily engaged in technical supervision, project design and
mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Hanson served as President and CEO of Noront Resources from 2009 through 2012, supervising
the initial mineral resource estimates for nickel and chromite and securing over C$75.0 million in capital
funding. He is passionate about the importance of environmental and social governance at all stages of
mineral exploration. Mr. Hanson is currently Vice President Exploration with Unigold, where he has
supervised exploration of the Neita Concession since 2013.
Wes is a graduate of Mount Allison University (BSc. Geology) and is a practicing member of the
Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario.
Nigel Lees has over thirty years' experience in merchant and investment banking in the U.K. and
Canada. His career in Canada commenced with RBC Dominion Securities as a research analyst.
During his career in Canada, he has been a partner and director of several investment dealers and has
assisted in financing companies in the process of going public on the Canadian stock exchanges.
He has served as a member of the Listing Committee of the Toronto Stock Exchange as well as an
officer and board member of several publicly listed junior mining companies. He was the founder and
past director of TVX Gold Inc., a significant North and South American gold producer, which merged with
Kinross Gold in 2003. He served as a director of Yamana Gold Inc for seventeen years until 2020, where
he served as the Chairman of the compensation committee.
He served as CEO of Sage Gold Inc. until
2018.
Most recently Mr. Lees co-founded a private mining exploration company, New Break Resources,
whose principal exploration properties are in Nunavut, Canada's vast northern territory.
Warren Bates graduated from University of Manitoba in 1985, with an Honours B. Sc. (Geology). His
work experience includes 20-years 1985-2005) with Vista Gold (previously Granges Inc.) where he held
successive positions from Project Geologist to Regional Manager and finally Vice President Exploration.
Mr. Bates held the position as VP Exploration for Pelangio Exploration for an additional 12-years.
His
experience includes greenfields to mine site exploration in greenstone gold, epithermal gold and
porphyry copper exploration, reserve and resource definition.
Warren has worked all over Canada, the
USA, Latin America and Africa, and is presently a consultant geologist.
About White Metal Resources Corp.
White Metal Resources Corp. is a junior exploration company exploring in Canada and southern Africa.
The Company's Flagship Property is the Tower Mountain Gold Project near Thunder Bay, Ontario,
Canada. For more information about the Company please visit
www.whitemetalres.com
.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
"Scott Jobin-Bevans"
Interim President & CEO, Director
For further information contact:
Scott Jobin-Bevans
White Metal Resources Corp.
684 Squier Street
Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7B 4A8
M:+1-647-405-3632
Elliot Strashin, Director
P:+1-416-504-0077 ext. 22
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