Altair Gold Appoints Feisal Somji as Director

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[{"type":"text","content":"Altair Gold Appoints Feisal Somji as Director(via Thenewswire.ca)\n \n \nVancouver, BC - July 18, 2013: Altair Gold Inc. (TSX-V: AVX; \"Altair\" or \"the Company\") is pleased to report that it has appointed Feisal Somji as a Director to its Board.\n\n \n \nMr. Somji has over 20 years of experience in the mining industry ranging from grassroots exploration to mine development. He has acted as an officer and director of several public companies involved in diamond, gold, silver, copper, base metal and platinum assets in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Philippines, Peru, Columbia and Africa. \n\n \n \nMost recently, Mr. Somji was the founder, President and CEO of Rio Alto Mining Ltd., which achieved commercial production in 2011 at the La Arena gold-copper mine in Peru, at an annualised rate of approximately 150,000 ounces of gold. Mr. Somji provides expertise in areas of corporate finance and governance. He has raised over $ 125 million and helped several companies list on the TSX Venture Exchange. \n\n \n \nMr. Somji has a B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia and an MBA from Queens University.\n\n\n \n\"Feisal brings experience, relationships and knowledge to Altair's Board and we look forward to his contribution to the development of Altair's Kena Gold project,\" said Altair Gold President and CEO, Fayyaz Alimohamed.\n\n\n \nThe Kena Property, located seven kilometers south of Nelson, British Columbia, is readily accessible by Highway 6 and several major logging roads. It comprises 152 claim units totaling an area of 7,609 hectares (76.1 km?). The property covers approximately 10 kilometers of strike length on a district-scale gold-copper system. \n\n \n \nThe mineral resource statement for the Kena Gold Property, as extracted from the 2013 Kena Technical Report, is summarized in the table below. The effective date of this resource estimate is February 7, 2013. The mineral resource statement is reported at a cut-off grade of 0.3 gpt gold.\n\n \n \nMineral Resource Statement, Kena Gold Property, British Columbia, Giroux and Park, May 15, 2013.\n\n \n \nCOMBINED KENA AND GOLD MT. (KGM) ZONE\n\n\n \nAt a 0.3 g/t cut-off\n\n \n \n\n ------------------------------------------------------------\n |Category |Tonnes |Grade Au (g/t)|Au Ounces|\n |----------------------------------------------------------|\n |Measured |6,690,000 |0.77 |...

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