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Bunker Hill Mining Announces Management Update
TORONTO, Aug. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bunker Hill Mining Corp. (“Bunker Hill” or the “Company”) (CSE: BNKR, OTCQB: BHLL) announces that David Wiens, the Co
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[{"type":"text","content":" TORONTO, Aug. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bunker Hill Mining Corp. (“Bunker Hill” or the “Company”) (CSE: BNKR, OTCQB: BHLL) announces that David Wiens, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, will be stepping down from his role to pursue another career opportunity. Concurrently, the Company is pleased to announce the appointment of Gerbrand Van Heerden as Bunker Hill’s new Chief Financial Officer, effective 14 October 2023. Mr. Wiens will continue to support the Company as CFO over the short term in order to ensure a smooth transition. An experienced Mining Company CFO, Gerbrand Van Heerden is a CPA registered with the Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia and a CA(SA) registered in South Africa and holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) Degree in Accounting from the University of Johannesburg. With over 20 years of mining industry experience, he has served as CFO of BMC Minerals (Pvt), Trevali Mining, and of Glencore’s Rosh Pinah Zinc Operations in Namibia. In addition to these key executive roles, he has also been Vice President Business Initiatives and Development at Trevali and served as financial controller and General Manager Commercial Services at Metorex, the South African base-metals producer and developer. A Canadian citizen and resident in British Columbia, he started his professional career as a Tax and Assurance Manager with Deloitte. Sam Ash, CEO, stated: “I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Gerbrand as our new CFO, who is well known to our Board and the North American Capital Markets. He brings considerable CFO and capital allocation experience to the Bunker Hill Team at a critical time for both the restart project and for the Company as we develop and execute on our evolving growth strategy.” “I would also like to thank David for his significant contributions as CFO during a foundational period for the Company. His many achievements include the delivery of project financing for the mine restart, enabling the up-listing to the TSX-V, and the helping to build the early version of our company’s financial systems and processes from scratch. We wish him well in his future endeavors.” ABOUT BUNKER HILL MINING CORP. Under new Idaho-based leadership, Bunker Hill intends to sustainably restart and develop the Bunker Hill Mine as the first step in consolidating and then optimizing a number of...