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International Tower Hill Mines Appoints Robert D. Comer as its new Chief Administrative Officer & General Counsel
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nInternational Tower Hill Mines Appoints Robert D. Comer as its new Chief Administrative Officer & General Counsel\n\nInternational Tower Hill Mines Ltd. (“ITH” or the “Company”) - (TSX: ITH, NYSE-A: THM, Frankfurt: IW9) announces the appointment of Mr. Robert D. Comer as the Company’s new Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel, effective January 1, 2012. Mr. Comer has nearly 25 years of experience practicing natural resource and mineral law in the United States and will be responsible for all legal affairs and corporate administration matters at ITH. He will play an influential role in the Company’s permitting activities at the Livengood Gold Project.\nMr. Comer served at the Department of the Interior from 2002 to 2010 in the executive positions of Associate Solicitor for Minerals, Land and Water, Regional Solicitor and Counselor to the Solicitor. During 2007, Mr. Comer also served as General Counsel and Principal Deputy to the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects where he helped to establish a new federal office involved with permitting an international natural gas pipeline from Alaska to the Alberta hub. Additional responsibilities included development and implementation of original office programmatic policy, procedures, hiring and procurement. From 1994 to 2000, Mr. Comer served as Mining Attorney and Associate General Counsel with Asarco Incorporated, a Fortune 500 mining, mineral processing and specialty chemical company. In that capacity, he performed legal services for their mining and smelting operations. Mr. Comer has also held positions with significant national law firms providing strategic legal services to mineral and natural resource companies and also is known for his expertise in environmental law. He holds a B.A., cum laude from the University of Colorado in Environmental Biology and Conservation, a Masters of Forest Science from Yale University and Juris Doctorate from University of Colorado’s School of Law.\n“I am extremely pleased to have Bob join the executive team,” stated James Komadina, Chief Executive Officer of ITH. “His tremendous legal experience in the mining and natural resource space, in particular with the U.S. Department of the Interior, will be invaluable to our tea...