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Rudy Wahl recipient of the PDAC 2020 Bill Dennis Award
TORONTO, Feb. 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Plato Gold Corp. (TSX-V: PGC) (“Plato” or the “Company”), is pleased to congratulate Dr. Rudy Wahl, the recipient of
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[{"type":"text","content":" TORONTO, Feb. 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Plato Gold Corp. (TSX-V: PGC) (“Plato” or the “Company”), is pleased to congratulate Dr. Rudy Wahl, the recipient of the Bill Dennis Award at the upcoming PDAC 2020. “I am very pleased that Rudy is the recipient of the 2020 Bill Dennis Award at PDAC,” said Anthony J. Cohen, President & CEO of Plato Gold Corp. “Rudy is a most deserving recipient of this great honour because of his many notable mineral discoveries and his tireless work teaching young people about prospecting and the riches of the mineral discovery and mining industry. Plato is most fortunate to be able to work with Rudy on the well-located Good Hope Niobium Project and, more recently, on our newly optioned Pic River Platinum/Palladium/Rhodium Project, also near Marathon, Ontario,” added Cohen. “We are very excited about the potential of these two exciting properties.” Dr. Rudy Wahl has made not one, but several significant discoveries in Ontario. A self-taught master of ore deposit models and exploration techniques, he has inspired others to pursue prospecting as a career and generously shared his knowledge of the craft. Prospecting has long been the lifeblood of mineral exploration, yet the skill often goes unrecognized because discoveries tend to be vended to public companies at the earliest stages of exploration. Known as one of the most productive prospectors in Ontario, Rudy has optioned more than 30 of his properties to companies eager to invest in further exploration. His discoveries represent a diverse range of commodities and deposit types, including gold, uranium, rare earth elements, diamonds and niobium. Born in Minden, Germany, Rudy spent eight years in the German army where he supervised the repair of military vehicles and tanks. He immigrated to Canada in 1988 and found work as a mechanical shop supervisor at the Dickenson gold mine in Ontario's Red Lake camp. He went on to become the mechanical leader at Barrick Gold's Williams mine near Hemlo and was promoted to a position managing continuous improvement at the operation in 2005. In his free time, Rudy would take to the bush prospecting, mostly in the relatively unexplored Terrace Bay-Marathon-White River area. By 2008, he was ready to adopt the precarious life of a full-time prospector. Through hard work and unlimited enthusiasm, he beat the od...