Business
Orestone Announces Changes to the Board of Directors and Stock Option Grant and Cancellation
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - April 30, 2018) - Orestone Mining Corp. (TSXV:...
About this update from Orestone Mining Corp.
[{"type":"text","content":"Orestone Announces Changes to the Board of Directors and Stock Option Grant and CancellationVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - April 30, 2018) - Orestone Mining Corp. (TSXV: ORS) (\"Orestone\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Julia Aspillaga and Mr. Patrick Daniels to the Company's Board of Directors. Combined Julia and Patrick have over six decades of mineral industry experience and have collaborated on several projects over the years. Mr. Gary Nordin, Orestone Director states, \"I worked with Julia and Patrick during the early years of Bema Gold. Julia was Bema's Country Manager in Chile and instrumental bringing the Refugio and Cerro Casale gold copper porphyry deposits to the group in 1988-90. Shortly thereafter, Patrick, Chief Engineer at Bema's Champagne Mine in the USA, was transferred to Chile as the Senior Project Engineer to work on the feasibility of the Refugio Project. With their long and successful history in the industry, I am confident that they will materially assist Orestone in the acquisition and development of substantial projects in Chile and elsewhere.\"Ms. Julia Aspillaga has more than 30 years of minerals industry experience in Chile and other Latin American countries. As a company founder, company builder, as an officer and as a director in both public and private companies; her various roles have included strategic planning, finance, management and administration. She holds two degrees from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, one in Business Administration and the other in Education.In the 1980's Julia was a partner of and participated in the discovery, development and subsequent sale to Glamis Gold of the San Cristóbal Gold Deposit in Region II Chile. In the 1990's she was manager of Bema Gold in Chile and played a key role in the development of the 5.4 million-ounce Refugio Gold Deposit, currently owned by Kinross Gold (source: Kinross Gold 2006 Mineral Reserve and Resource Statement).Additionally, Julia brought the Cerro Casale project to the Bema Group where a mineral reserve and resource in excess of 23 million ounces of gold, 5.8 billion pounds of copper and 58 million ounces of silver have been drilled off. Barrick Gold and Goldcorp are now 50/50 partners on the project (source: Goldcorp News release June 9, 2017).Julia has been a ma...