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Newton Gold Adds New Director
Newton Gold Adds New Director Vancouver, British Columbia CANADA, October 24, 2011 /FSC/ - New...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nNewton Gold Adds New Director\n\nNewton Gold Adds New Director\nVancouver, British Columbia CANADA, October 24, 2011 /FSC/ - Newton Gold Corp.  (NWG - TSX Venture), (\"Newton Gold\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that Mr. Lindsay Bottomer has joined the Company's board of directors.\nMr. Bottomer has a unique perspective on the Newton Project as he was a director of Richfield Ventures as well as a former President and CEO of Silver Quest Resources. Both companies had interests in the Blackwater Davidson deposit and both were subsequently taken over by New Gold Inc.\nMr. Bottomer is a professional geologist with more than 38 years of experience in global mineral exploration and development with major and junior mining companies.  He is currently Vice President, Business Development at Entree Gold Inc., which has significant copper and gold assets in the Oyu Tolgoi area of Mongolia.\nMr. Bottomer obtained a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Geology from the University of Queensland and a Master of Applied Science degree from McGill University. Mr. Bottomer is as member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia and a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He is also past President of the British Columbia and Yukon Chamber of Mines and served for six years from 2002 to 2008 as an elected councillor on the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia.\n\"We are very excited to have Lindsay joining the board as he is a very well respected geologist and in addition, his direct experience with the Blackwater Davidson deposit - a potentially similar deposit-style to Newton - will be a real asset to the Company\", stated Mark McLeary, president of Newton Gold.\nAbout the Newton Project:\nThe Newton Project has the potential for the discovery and development of a significant epithermal gold and gold-copper porphyry-type deposit.  Highlights from the Phase 2 drilling include important intercepts in hole 11040 that is located 200 metres to the east of the discovery drilling area, which includes hole 9001 with 69 metres averaging 1.41 g/t gold; hole 9003 with 128 metres averaging 0.84 g/t gold and hole 9004 with 190 metres averaging 1.56 g/t gold (see news release dated February 10, 2011).\nAbout Ne...