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Fortune Minerals Announces David Massola Has Rejoined the Company as Vice President Business Development
Building the team to advance the NICO Critical Minerals Project to a construction decision ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Fortune Minerals Announces David Massola Has Rejoined the Company as Vice President Business Development\n\n\n .bwalignc { text-align: center; list-style-position: inside }\n.bwuline { text-decoration: underline }\n \n\n\n\n\n Building the team to advance the NICO Critical Minerals Project to a construction decision\n \n\n\n\n\n\n Fortune Minerals Limited (TSX: FT) (OTCQB: FTMDF)\n \n (“\n \n Fortune\n \n ” or the “\n \n Company\n \n ”) (\n \n www.fortuneminerals.com\n \n ) is pleased to announce that Mr. David Massola has rejoined the Company as Vice President, Business Development to assist with the transition of the vertically integrated NICO cobalt-gold-bismuth-copper critical minerals project (“\n \n NICO Project\n \n ”) to project finance and development. David Massola is a seasoned mining industry financial executive with decades of experience working for large multinational mining and processing companies, junior mining companies, and developers, including significant work in Canada’s northern territories. Dave will be based in Toronto and will help the Company with its strategic and financial planning, assist with joint ventures, corporate and project finance, and he will lead the negotiations for First Nation Participation Agreements and business relationships.\n \n\n Like our news?\n \n Click-to-post-on-X.\n \n\n\n David Massola graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in Accounting before embarking on a twenty-year career with BHP Group Limited (“\n \n BHP\n \n ”) and its predecessors, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization. This included work at the corporate office in San Francisco, the Escondida Copper Mine in Chile, the Island Copper Mine in British Columbia, and the Ekati Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories (“\n \n NWT\n \n ”), the latter for which he was Chief Financial Officer (“\n \n CFO\n \n ”) of BHP Diamonds Inc. David left BHP to become Vice President and CFO of DeBeers Canada Corporation, which was developing two diamond mines in the NWT and Ontario at the time. His recent experience included roles as Senior Vice President of Finance and CFO of GlobeStar Mining Corp., where he was involved with the financing, construction and operation of a copper-gold mine in th...