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Maritime Retains New Interim CFO
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 15, 2017) - Maritime Resources Corp. (T...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Maritime Retains New Interim CFOVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 15, 2017) - Maritime Resources Corp. (TSXV: MAE) (\"Maritime\" or \"the Company\") reports the appointment of Niina Makela as interim Chief Financial Officer for the Company. Effective immediately Ms. Makela has replaced Jeannine P. M. Webb, as CFO of the Company. President and CEO, Doug Fulcher, states \"We are pleased to have Niina transition into the role of CFO, on an interim basis. Niina has been with the Company as Senior Corporate Account for a number of years and has worked under the departing CFO. We look forward to continuing working with her during this period while the search continues for replacement in the future with the appropriate experience to help restart the past producing Hammerdown Gold mine. \"On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Company we would to thank Ms. Webb for her contributions to the Company over the past years.\"About Maritime Resources Corp.:Maritime Resources holds 100% of the Green Bay Property, located near Springdale, Newfoundland and Labrador. The property hosts the past producing Hammerdown gold mine and the Orion gold deposit separated by a 1.5 km distance, as well as the Lochinvar base metals/precious metals deposit.The company recently announced a PFS (March 2nd, 2017) that successfully demonstrated a viable mining operation with low upfront capital and short time line to the start of gold production. The engineering design optimizes a small foot print within the historical mine area as well as utilizing some of the existing underground infrastructure where possible. The operation is scheduled to run at a capacity of approximately 400 metric tons per day ('mtpd') over a five-year mine life.The results show positive economics, strong internal rate of return, short payback period and significant cash flow under reasonable commodity price assumptions. The pre-tax operating cash cost to produce an ounce of gold is $558 CDN with an all-in pre-tax-cost (including capital, sustaining capital and operating cost) of $955 CDN per ounce of gold. In addition, there remain numerous opportunities for improvement to reduce the planned development and capital costs. Maritime will continue to evaluate these opportunities with a goal to fully optimize the returns from the mining operation.The Hammerdown gold deposit...