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Great Pacific Gold Appoints Greg McCunn as CEO and Director
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Great Pacific Gold Corp. ("Great Pacific Gold,” “GPAC,” or the "Company") (TSXV: GPAC) (OTCQX: FS
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[{"type":"text","content":" VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Great Pacific Gold Corp. (\"Great Pacific Gold,” “GPAC,” or the \"Company\") (TSXV: GPAC) (OTCQX: FSXLF) (Germany: 4TU) is pleased to announce the appointment of seasoned mining executive Mr. Greg McCunn as Chief Executive Officer and director of the Company. Mr. McCunn, a Professional Engineer, has more than 30 years of experience in the international mining sector and an established track record operationally. Mr. McCunn has worked within large mining organizations such as Placer Dome and Teck but has also led multiple junior mining companies from exploration success through the transition to project development, permitting, financing, construction and operations. As an executive, he has had a leadership role putting mines into production on three different continents. In addition to Mr. McCunn’s strong operational and technical focus, his financial acumen and capital markets ability is proven, and as an executive he has raised over $600 million in equity and debt financing from US and Canadian capital markets. He has also completed over $ 1 billion in merger and acquisitions transactions and has been the Chief Executive Officer of several NYSE and TSX companies including Alio Gold and Galiano Gold. Mr. McCunn holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and has had more than a decade of experience in the mining sector as a Chief Financial Officer. Mr. McCunn states, “Over the past two years, Great Pacific Gold has acquired a large and highly prospective land package in PNG ranging from early-stage exploration projects through to more advanced stage brownfield situations. With licenses now issued, field preparation work done and an in-country team built out, GPAC’s success will be largely about execution. Additional to PNG, of course, the Company has assembled excellent projects in Victoria and over the past four years has advanced the understanding of those projects on the ground through exploration. The recent discovery at Comet is an example of the high quality targets being explored and we look forward to advancing these Australian assets in a systematic and disciplined fashion towards additional discovery. I am pleased the Board of the Company has entrusted me with the responsibility of taking this company to the next level while developing and executing o...