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Appointment of COO and Option award
Appointment of COO and Option award.
About this update from Kavango Resources Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n RNS Number : 4237R\n Kavango Resources PLC\n 05 November 2021\n \n \n \n PRESS RELEASE\n \n 5 November 2021\n KAVANGO RESOURCES PLC\n (\"Kavango\" or \"the Company\")\n \n Appointment of COO & option award\n Kavango Resources plc (LSE:KAV), the exploration company targeting the discovery of world-class mineral deposits in Botswana, is pleased to announce that it has appointed Mr Brett Grist as Chief Operating Officer designate. Mr Grist brings valuable operational and technical skills to the Company's executive team. Mr Grist will join Kavango on 7 February 2022, and will join the board of Kavango as an executive director.\n Mr Grist is a geologist from the Royal School of Mines, London, with over 22 years of exploration and mining experience in base metals and gold across Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia. He is also a Chartered Professional member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.\n Over the course of his career, Mr Grist has worked in geological and management roles as CEO, Director, and Exploration Manager, taking projects from early exploration through resource definition and into development. In Africa he worked for Reunion Mining PLC and CASA Mining Ltd, covering projects in Mali, Ghana, DRC, and Mozambique. In DRC, as CEO of CASA, he led a large exploration program covering airborne geophysics, soil sampling, and extensive diamond drilling, which successfully delivered a maiden resource for the Misisi gold deposit. Most recently he has worked in the UK, where he has led definition of a substantial high-grade metal resource for Strategic Minerals PLC's Redmoor tin-tungsten-copper project. Brett also presently co-chairs the Critical Minerals Association's UK mining working group.\n David Smith, Chairman of Kavango Resources, commented:\n \n \"\n We are very happy to welcome Brett, an experienced exploration executive, to Kavango. His extensive background in advancing exploration programs and delivering projects adds important technical skills to Kavango's senior management.\n \n \n We have made a great deal of progress building a much more robust foundation for the Company over 2021. Brett's appointment will significantly strengthen Kavango, as we grow the business more ambitiously in 2022. I am really looking forward to welcoming him to the team and work...