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Monument Appoints General Manager and Mine Manager
Monument Appoints General Manager and Mine Manager
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[{"type":"text","content":"Monument Appoints General Manager and Mine Manager\n\n\n\nMonument Appoints General Manager and Mine Manager\n\nVancouver, British Columbia CANADA, August 25, 2008 /FSC/ - Monument Mining Ltd. (MMY - TSX Venture, D7Q1 - FWB), (\"Monument\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce the appointment of Kevin J. Wright, ACSM Mining and Mineral Processing Engineer, as General Manager of its Malaysian subsidiary - Selinsing Gold Mine Manager Sdn. Bhd. and Mine Manager for the Selinsing Gold Project.\n\nMr. Wright has over 33 years of international experience building mineral treatment facilities, developing both underground and open caste mines and operating such projects. His international experience has included management of mines and plant design engineering, reliability maintenance planning, permitting, quality control and the business of running safe profitable mines and mineral processing plants in Central and South America, the Caribbean, Asia, Russia and the former Soviet Union as well as Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and North America. \n\nThe previous experience of Mr. Wright in planning, designing, managing construction, and operation of mining properties including development of site infrastructure is extensive. Some of these projects include Dragon Mining NL open caste gold mine and CIL facility, Svartliden, Northen Sweden; Celtic Resources LLC, London, England at Nezhdaniskoye Mine, Yakutia, Russia; Ivanhoe Mines Ltd, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, Eunsan Mine South Korea; Olympus Pacific Minerals Ltd., Vancouver B.C. Canada, Phuoc Son, underground and Bong Mieu open caste projects, Quang Nam Province, Vietnam; Greenstone Resources, La Libertad, Nicaragua -open caste heap leach gold project; MK Gold Co., American Girl Mine JV, Winterhaven, California open caste and underground gold mine and CIL plant. Some of Mr. Wright's other projects include working with companies such as Cominco Ltd, Fluor Daniel, Bunker Hill Mining Ltd., Minproc Engineers, Lac Minerals South America, Goldfields Mining Ltd. and URS Washington Division.\n\nMr. Wright has now relocated to Selinsing mine site and heads up and manages the building of the Selinsing Gold Mine mineral processing facility and the development of the Selinsing open pit. He will be a key member of the senior...