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Blue Moon Appoints Jonathan Gagne to Board of Directors
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / January 5, 2021 / Blue Moon Zinc Corp. (TSXV:MOON)(OTC PINK:BMO...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Blue Moon Appoints Jonathan Gagne to Board of DirectorsVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / January 5, 2021 / Blue Moon Zinc Corp. (TSXV:MOON)(OTC PINK:BMOOF) (the \"Company\") announces the appointment of Jonathan Gagné, Eng., MBA, to its Board of Directors effective immediately.Mr. Gagné has a B.Sc. in Mining Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal and an MBA with a specialization in Corporate Finance from Université du Québec à Montréal. Mr. Gagné has extensive experience in the mining sector in terms of engineering, feasibility studies, operations and construction. Mr. Gagné began his career with Agnico-Eagle during the construction and commissioning of the Meadowbank gold project located in Nunavut. He then led the mining engineering department for SGS Geostat, a mining services company specializing in computer-assisted mineral resource estimation services. Mr. Gagné then followed with Glencore Zinc, which owns the Hackett River deposit in Nunavut which is adjacent to the Company's Yava Property. At Glencore Zinc, he was involved in numerous zinc projects throughout the World. Most recently, he was General Manager of Sayona Quebec and currently is a senior consulting engineer working for Greenstone Gold Mines, which aims to develop the multi-million ounce Hardrock Gold Project located in Ontario. Greenstone Gold Mines is a joint venture between Premier Gold Mines Limited (pending acquisition by Equinox Gold Corp) and Centerra Gold (pending acquisition of interest by Orion Mine Finance Group).\"On behalf of the board, I welcome Mr. Gagné to the board of directors. Mr. Gagné's engineering, feasibility and construction experience will be invaluable to Blue Moon as it advances its projects.,\" stated Patrick McGrath, Chief Executive Officer of Blue Moon Zinc. \"Of particular relevance is Mr. Gagné's involvement in numerous zinc projects with Glencore Zinc, which owns the Hackett River deposit in Nunavut and is adjacent to the Company's Yava Property. Hackett River is one of the largest undeveloped zinc-silver projects in North America and we believe Mr. Gagné's extensive experience with zinc projects and the Canadian Artic, will add significant value to Blue Moon.\"In conjunction with the appointment, the Company has granted Mr. Gagné 300,000 stock options exercisabl...