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Durango Hires Voormeij as Geological Consultant for Decouverte
(via TheNewswire) Vancouver, BC / TheNewswire / November 20 , 2017 - Durango Resources In...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Durango Hires Voormeij as Geological Consultant for Decouverte(via TheNewswire)\n \n \nVancouver, BC / TheNewswire / November 20, 2017 - Durango Resources Inc. (TSX.V-DGO), (the \"Company\" or \"Durango\") announces that it has hired Danae Voormeij, BSc (hon), MSc, PGeo, as a geological consultant for its wholly-owned Decouverte property located in the James Bay Eyou Istchee Territory of north-central Quebec.\n\n\n \nDanae Voormeij designs and manages large-scale grassroots gold exploration programs. She has 15+ years' experience in exploring for greenstone-hosted orogenic gold, gold-rich VMS-style and epithermal gold-silver mineralized systems across the African continent, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Mexico, Nicaragua and Dutch Guyana. In 2011, she led the AIM-listed Hummingbird Resources' exploration team to the grassroots discovery of 2.4 million ounces of gold (at 1.5 g/t Au grade) at the Birimian-greenstone belt-hosted Tuzon deposit in Liberia, West Africa. \n\n\n \nMs. Voormeij placed in the top 20 of the 2015 Integra Gold Challenge with her innovative proposal on target selection, out of 1,342 participants from 83 countries. More recently, she reviewed 7 gold concessions in Egypt's Eastern Desert, where she worked on historic and ancient gold mines. Ms. Voormeij is a registered professional with Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia (EGBC) since 2007 and a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) since 2013.\n\n\n \nMarcy Kiesman, President and CEO of Durango Resources stated, \"With her extensive experience in greenstone-hosted orogenic gold systems, Ms. Voormeij is highly qualified to review our dataset on the Decouverte. She has been hired as a consultant to bring together all of the rock and soil geochemistry and DIGHEM geophysical data that we have collected for Decouverte, from which she will form a geological model and define drill targets for a first diamond core drilling program at our exciting, 100% owned, gold project in James Bay, Quebec.\"\n\n\n \nAbout Decouverte\n\n\n \nThe Decouverte property (\"The Property\") is in the Frotet-Evans greenstone belt, along the same shear zone as the former Troilus copper-gold mine, located approximately 60 kilometres to the northeast, which produced over two million ounces of gold and 50,000 tonnes of copper from 1997 to 2010. Durango is targeting o...