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Aztec Minerals Appoints Marc Prefontaine and David Jones to Advisory Committee
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / February 19, 2019 / Aztec Minerals Corp. (AZT: TSX-V, OTCQB: AZZ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Aztec Minerals Appoints Marc Prefontaine and David Jones to Advisory CommitteeVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / February 19, 2019 / Aztec Minerals Corp. (AZT: TSX-V, OTCQB: AZZTF) reports the appointments of Mr. Marc Prefontaine and Dr. David Jones to the company's newly formed Business and Technical Advisory Committee. As advisors, David and Marc bring their extensive exploration and business experience and contacts to complement management's expertise on the path to discovery.Aztec CEO Joey Wilkins commented, \"We are pleased to welcome David and Marc to the Advisory Committee and we look forward to working with them on both our flagship Cervantes porphyry gold (copper) project in Sonora, Mexico and our up-and-coming Tombstone CRD gold-silver-lead-zinc-copper project in Arizona. Marc brings the added dimension of having directed Grayd Resources as CEO through their discovery of the La India gold deposit and consequent sale of Grayd to Agnico-Eagle. David is well-known for his significant contributions to the discovery and development of world class skarn related gold deposits in the Guerrero, Mexico gold belt.\"Mr. Marc A. Prefontaine, MSc., P.Geo. graduated with a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Alberta and an M.Sc. in Mineral Exploration & Geology from Queen's University. He has over 25 years experience in all facets of mineral exploration and worked companies such as Teck Resources, Hunter Dickinson, Northair Group and Lac Minerals throughout North and South America, South Africa and Central Asia. Marc served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Grayd Resource Corp. from 2003 to 2012, where he assembled the land package in Sonora, Mexico that ultimately became the La India discovery. Following the sale of Grayd, Marc served as Chief Executive Officer, Director and President of Orla Mining Ltd. from 2015 until December 31, 2018 where he acquired core gold development projects in Panama and Mexico.Dr. David Jones is a graduate of Dartmouth College in Nova Scotia and the University of Arizona, he has over 40 years of exploration experience throughout the Americas and is currently a director of Minaurum Gold, Megastar Development, and a private concern, Acapulco Gold. As the foremost expert on the Guerrero Gold Belt, he discovered the Los Filos deposit in 1995, and then led the successful bid by Teck Corp. to ...