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Wesgold Appoints New Director
VANCOUVER, Sept. 13, 2011 /CNW/ - Wesgold Minerals Inc. (TSXV: WSG) is pleased to announce th...
About this update from Cordoba Minerals Corp.
[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nVANCOUVER, Sept. 13, 2011 /CNW/ - Wesgold Minerals Inc. (TSXV: WSG) is\n pleased to announce that Tod Turley has been appointed to the Board of\n Directors.  Mr. Turley is the Chief Operating Officer and Director of\n Minatura International LLC, the majority shareholder of Cordoba\n Minerals Corp. which is the owner of the Cordoba Project. Previously,\n he served as Chairman and CEO of Amerivon, a niche private equity\n investment firm specializing in high-growth consumer products and\n services companies. He also has served for 25 years as an investment\n banker, corporate attorney and senior executive with emerging growth\n companies and has been an entrepreneur in the mining,\n telecommunications, finance and consumer products sector.\n\n\n\"I am happy to welcome Tod to the Board,\" states Wesgold Chairman, Simon\n Ridgway.  \"We are looking forward to working with Minatura's management\n as we explore and develop the Cordoba gold/copper porphyry systems.\n We're currently in discussion with several financial institutions to\n raise capital to fund the planned exploration program once we've\n received exchange approval for the deal. As well, we've had expressions\n of interest from several major mining companies with respect to\n participating in the future exploration of the Cordoba property.\"\n\n\nAbout Wesgold Minerals\n\n\nWesgold Minerals Inc. is a Vancouver-based mineral exploration company\n focused on the acquisition and exploration gold and copper projects in\n Colombia. Wesgold recently optioned from Minatura the Cordoba property,\n covering 25,790 hectares in the Department of Cordoba, Colombia, 200km\n north of the city of Medellin. These claims cover underexplored marine\n volcano-sedimentary rocks and are prospective for porphyry copper/gold\n and iron-oxide-copper-gold-style (IOCG) mineral deposits. Numerous\n artisanal gold workings occur throughout the Cordoba property, which\n has seen small-scale artisanal production for over 30 years. Recent\n gold discoveries in Colombia, including Anglogold Ashanti's La Colossa\n gold porphyry, have highlighted the world-class potential of the\n country.\n\n\nAbout Minatura\n\n\nMinatura is in the business of exploration, development and, ultimately,\n extraction of precious and base metals in Colombia, South America in\n over 300,000 hectares and ...