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Minaurum Appoints Dr. Peter Megaw and David M. Jones to the Board of Directors
Minaurum Appoints Dr. Peter Megaw and David M. Jones to the Board of Directors
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nMinaurum Appoints Dr. Peter Megaw and David M. Jones to the Board of Directors\n\n\n Nov. 4, 2010 (TheNewswire.ca) -- Minaurum Gold Inc. (the \"Company\" or \"Minaurum\") is pleased to announce the appointments of Dr. Peter Megaw and David M. Jones to the Board of Directors.Dr. Peter K.M. Megaw is the President of IMDEX/Cascabel and co-founder of Minera Cascabel, MAG Silver (TSX:MAG) (AMEX:MVG) , and Minera Mariposa. Dr. Megaw has been working as a geologist in Mexico for 30 years and is credited with significant discoveries at Mag Silver's Juanicipio-Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Platosa, Durango; and Cinco de Mayo, Chihuahua. He and his associates also put together the Mexican property portfolio now held by Lakeshore Gold and arranged the acquisition of X-Strata's Latin American holdings (OOTC:ADGI) by Linear Gold.Dr. Megaw is a frequent key speaker at various international academic and technical symposia and has been published extensively. He is considered an expert on Carbonate Replacement Deposits and Epithermal Vein Deposits. Peter has served on the Board of MAG Silver since 2005, and Candente Gold (TSX:CDG) since 2009. In 2003, Peter's group teamed with David Jones (OOTC:DJNSY) to form Minera Mariposa through which several of Minaurum's properties were obtained.David M. Jones is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Arizona (M.S. 1987) with over 30 years experience in mineral exploration and project management. As Chief Geologist of Teck's Nukay Project from 1994-1999, Mr. Jones is credited with the geologic modeling that led to the discovery of the Los Filos gold-skarn deposit, which became Mexico's largest gold producer (Goldcorp Inc.) in 2010. Application of his model to other properties in the region dramatically expanded the conceptual extent of the Guerrero Gold Belt and led to the discoveries of El Limon and Los Guajes, also major gold-skarn deposits.He has published numerous technical articles and is considered to be the foremost expert on Guerrero Gold Belt type deposits. Mr. Jones has worked extensively throughout the Guerrero Gold Belt for clients including Wheaton River, Peñoles, Grupo Mexico, Torex and a number of Canadian juniors. David co-founded Minera Mariposa with Dr. Megaw's team in 2003 and Minera Zalamera in 2006. His exploration work led to the acquisition of the portfolio of gold prop...