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Appointment of Exploration Manager
Appointment of Exploration Manager.
About this update from Great Western Mining Corp. Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n RNS Number : 0113T\n Great Western Mining Corp. plc\n 22 November 2021\n \n \n \n \n GREAT WESTERN MINING CORPORATION\n PLC\n \n \n (\"Great Western\", \"GWM\" or the \"Company\")\n \n Appointment of Exploration Manager\n \n Great Western Mining Corporation PLC (AIM - GWMO, Euronext Growth - 8GW), which is exploring and developing gold, silver and copper targets in Mineral County, Nevada, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. James Blight as Exploration Manager. \n \n Dr. Blight will join the Company on 29 November 2021 and within his first week will travel to the Company's operations in Nevada to review the proposed 2022 work programme, which will include further drilling and ongoing plans for the reprocessing of spoil heaps and tailings.\n \n Dr. Blight is a Chartered Professional affiliated to the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy ('AusIMM'), with relevant experience in vein-hosted gold and base-metals exploration, and is a 'Qualified Person' for reporting purposes. His career has included frontier and near-mine exploration, resource interpretation, infill drill programmes, pre-feasibility studies and assessment of mined materials for potential reprocessing operations. \n \n Dr. Blight has worked on projects in West Africa, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and peri-arctic Sweden. \n \n At Jibal Qutman in Saudi Arabia, he identified and sampled the Red Hill gold target which became a 40,000 oz. satellite deposit.\n \n Most recently he has worked with Cornwall Resources PLC where he was the technical lead at the Redmoor Project, discovering a new tungsten-tin-copper resource. Following this, he designed a second drill campaign which succeeded in more than doubling the originally estimated tonnage, at better than anticipated grades. \n \n \n Brian Hall, Executive Chairman, commented: \"\n We are pleased to welcome James Blight to this senior position in our team and look forward to working with him. He joins us at a time when we are hard at work on our large portfolio of projects in Nevada with the ultimate aim of making a major discovery and the experience he brings should help us to achieve this objective. \n \n \n \"Our successful drilling campaign at the Olympic Gold Proj...