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Honey Badger Silver Announces Management Changes; Brian Briggs Appointed as Interim CEO
Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - February 8, 2023) - Honey Badger Silver Inc. (TSXV: TUF) ("Honey Badger" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the appoin
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[{"type":"text","content":" Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - February 8, 2023) - Honey Badger Silver Inc. (TSXV: TUF) (\"Honey Badger\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Brian Briggs as the Company's Interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately. Mr. Briggs replaces the Company's outgoing President, Edmond Thorose. Chad Williams, Non-executive Chairman, stated, \"I want to thank Edmond for his commitment and many contributions to the Company and we wish him the best in his future endeavours. I would also like to welcome Brian Briggs as our new Interim CEO. He brings a depth of experience that will be of great benefit to our Company and since he is already a Director of Honey Badger his transaction to Interim CEO will be expeditious.\" Mr. Briggs has significant expertise in managing social license and environmental issues including rehabilitation of brown fields locations and historic environmental impacts. He has been in many senior management roles including Managing Director, COO and numerous VPs and or Project Management positions in domestic and international organizations. He is a professional engineer (UT, CO & WY) with over 35 years of industry experience in both underground and surface mine operations holding a BS in Mining Engineering and MS in Agricultural engineering from the University of Wyoming. He is a sixth generation mining engineer in Colorado. Mr. Briggs will be joined by Dorian L. (Dusty) Nicol as Chief Operating Officer and Yvan Gregoire as Vice President of Business Development for the Company. Dusty Nicol has a B.Sc. degree in Earth Science from M.I.T. and an M.A. degree in geology from Indiana University. Dusty has over 47 years of world-wide experience in minerals exploration and mining. He has designed and managed successful exploration programs throughout North and South America, Africa, Russia and the Former Soviet Union, and Papua New Guinea. He led the early work in Papua New Guinea which recognized the large mineralized system in the Eastern Highlands which eventually became the K92 gold deposit. He has also designed and managed generative gold exploration programs in Africa and Europe. Dusty has also efficiently managed due diligence of mining projects at every stage of exploration, development, and production. In addition to his exploration experience, he has managed t...