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Norsemont appoints Sivertz as project manager of the Amata Silver-Gold-Copper Project
Norsemont appoints Sivertz as project manager of the Amata Silver-Gold-Copper Project.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\nVANCOUVER, March 14 /CNW/ - Norsemont Mining Inc. (\"Norsemont\" or \"the\nCompany\") (TSX-V: NOM; Frankfurt: N8S; WKN: A0DQKK; OTC-BB: NOMFF) is pleased\nto announce that George Sivertz, B.Sc. P. Geo., was recently retained by\nNorsemont to join its dynamic exploration team.\nMr. Sivertz will oversee the assessment and exploration of the Amata\nSilver-Gold-Copper Project in southern Peru. Mr. Sivertz and Tom Henricksen,\nChief Geologist of Norsemont are currently on site at the Amata project\noutlining our upcoming exploration and drilling programs. After completing a\nrecent $14 million financing, Norsemont has sufficient funds to complete the\nprograms.\n\"I am excited to be joining Norsemont's professional exploration team in\nsouthern Peru, one of the best places in the world to find new mines,\" said\nMr. Sivertz.\n\"Norsemont is pleased to be able to attract some of the most talented\ngeologists in the field. We look forward to George developing our exploration\nprograms for Amata, and achieving the same level of success we've had at our\nConstancia Project,\" said Marc E. Levy, President and CEO of Norsemont Mining\nInc.\nMr. Sivertz has worked for more than 30 years as an exploration geologist\nand project manager throughout the Americas. Mr Sivertz is a Senior Geologist\nwith OreQuest Consultants Ltd, a well-regarded Vancouver firm. Since joining\nOreQuest in 1994, he has been exploring in Latin America for various clients,\nprimarily in Peru. He has significant experience with epithermal gold,\nporphyry copper-molybdenum, and skarn deposits in many districts of Peru.\nAfter taking a degree in Honours Geology from the University of British\nColumbia in 1976, Mr. Sivertz began his career with Noranda Exploration in\nNorth-western BC. He later worked for various companies exploring for silver\nand gold in the Yukon and in the Toodoggone River district in BC. He gained\nimportant experience with Hunter Dickinson Inc at the Mt. Milligan and\nProsperity copper-gold porphyry deposits in BC. In 1994, he explored north\nwestern Mexico for Glamis Gold.\n\nTHE AMATA SILVER-GOLD-COPPER PROJECT\n\nThe Amata Project consists of 10,300 hectares and is located 50 km\nnortheast of Arequipa City in the Coalaque district in the department of\nMoquegua, Peru. The project area contains the Amata high sulphidation\nepithermal sys...