Medgold Appoints Director &Technical Advisors; Grants Options
February 24 2014 - 3:30AM
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Medgold Appoints Director &Technical Advisors; Grants Options
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Feb 24, 2014) -
Medgold Resources Corp. (TSX-VENTURE:MED), the European focused
gold exploration company, is pleased to announce that Mr. Brent
Cook and Mr. Michael Skead have agreed to join Medgold's technical
advisory committee. Mr. Skead has also been appointed to Medgold's
Board of Directors.
Dan James, the President of Medgold, said: "I'm delighted that
Michael and Brent have agreed to join our technical advisory
committee and I'm also looking forward to working with Michael on
the Board of Directors. They have a wealth of experience gained
from critically examining hundreds of mineral properties, in many
different geological settings, around the world. I'm looking
forward to their practical hands-on advice as we advance our
Portuguese and Spanish project portfolio."
Michael Skead
Mr. Skead, a geologist by training, currently serves as Vice
President Project Evaluation for Dundee Resources. As a
professional geologist and consultant, he has extensive exploration
experience in Africa, including the DRC where he was Vice President
Exploration for Banro Corporation and led all of its exploration
activities including advancing its projects to the feasibility
stage. Prior to Banro, Mr. Skead was the Exploration Manager for
SAMAX Gold and was responsible for the discoveries of the Kukuluma
and Matandani gold deposits in the Geita Greenstone Belt in
Tanzania. Subsequent to these discoveries, SAMAX was acquired by
Ashanti Goldfields in 1998. The two deposits were brought into
production as the Geita Mine, which is currently the largest open
pit mining in East Africa. Mr. Skead subsequently served as the
Exploration Manager for Ashanti Goldfields until 2001.
Mr. Skead has also worked on mineral exploration projects in the
USA, Canada, Mexico, Namibia and Indonesia. He holds a M.Sc. in
Exploration Geology, and is a member of the Australian Institute of
Mining and Metallurgy, The South African Council for Natural
Scientific Professions, the Geological Society of South Africa and
the Society of Economic Geologists.
Brent Cook
Mr. Cook is an economic geologist who has been involved in the
mineral exploration and mining business for 32 years. During this
time he has evaluated and valued grassroots through feasibility
stage mineral projects in over 60 countries and lived in Australia,
Antigua, Brazil, Costa Rica and the Western US. In 1997 he joined
Sprott-Global Resource Investments where he was a principal mining
analyst until 2002. Since then, he has been an independent analyst
and advisor to several investment funds and high net worth
individuals. He is author of the investment letter Exploration
Insights, which covers select investment opportunities in the
junior exploration and mining sector.
Incentive Stock Options
Medgold has granted incentive stock options to its directors,
officers, employees and consultants to purchase up to a total of
3,255,000 shares of Medgold exercisable for ten years at a price of
$0.15 per share.
About Medgold
Medgold is aiming to become the leading Mediterranean-focused
gold exploration and project development company, with an extensive
portfolio and pipeline of projects across Portugal, Italy and
Spain, targeting economically stressed, but politically stable
European countries that are seeking foreign investment to
invigorate the mining sector.
Additional information on Medgold can be found on the
Company's website at www.medgoldresources.com and by reviewing the
Company's page on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
Daniel P. James, President & Director
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor the Investment Industry
Regulatory Organization of Canada accepts responsibility for the
adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Forward-looking statements
This press release may contain forward-looking statements
including, but not limited to, comments regarding the timing and
content of upcoming work programs, geological interpretations,
receipt of property titles, potential mineral recovery processes,
and other related matters. Forward-looking statements address
future events and conditions and therefore involve inherent risks
and uncertainties. Medgold's projects in Europe are at an early
stage and all estimates and projections are based on limited, and
possibly incomplete, data. More work is required before the
mineralization and the projects' economic aspects can be
confidently modelled. Actual results may differ materially from
those currently anticipated in this news release. No representation
or prediction is intended as to the results of future work, nor can
there be any promise that the estimates and projections herein will
be sustained in future work or that the projects will otherwise
prove to be economic.
Medgold Resources Corp.Ralph Rushton (Vancouver)Investor
Relations+1 604-801-5432ralphr@goldgroup.comMedgold Resources
Corp.Dan James (UK and Portugal)President+44 (0) 7972
579188dj@medgoldresources.com
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