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Silver Hammer Mining Appoints Former Coeur Mining Senior Vice-President Exploration and Bill Dennis Prospector of the Year Award Recipient as Board Advisor
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 15, 2023) - Silver Hammer Mining Corp. (CSE: HAMR) (OTCQB: HAMRF) (the "Company" or "Silver Hammer") is ple
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[{"type":"text","content":" Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 15, 2023) - Silver Hammer Mining Corp. (CSE: HAMR) (OTCQB: HAMRF) (the \"Company\" or \"Silver Hammer\") is pleased to announce the appointment of Donald Birak as Board Advisor to the Company. With over 40 years of experience in mineral exploration and operations, including the roles of Senior Vice-President of Exploration with Coeur Mining (2004 to 2013) responsible for global Greenfields and Brownfields exploration, Vice President of Exploration for AngloGold North America (1998 to 2004), Independence Mining Company (1995 to 1998), and Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Ltd. (1992 to 1995) and Chief Geologist & Exploration Geologist for Freeport-McMoRan Gold Company (1978 to 1991), Mr. Birak brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the Silver Hammer team. \"We are excited to welcome Donald Birak as a board advisor to Silver Hammer,\" commented President & CEO Peter A. Ball. \"I have known Don for over 30 years, since our time together at Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting in the early 1990s, and I am thrilled to be working together again. Don brings extensive experience and expertise in global mineral exploration and development, particularly in the Coeur d'Alene district of Idaho where he worked as the Senior Vice President Exploration with Coeur Mining for over a decade. As we explore our portfolio of brownfield projects in the USA, Don's wealth of knowledge of the Idaho Silver Valley and also Nevada will be invaluable as we continue to advance each project through the discovery and resource development stages to create long-term value for our stakeholders.\" In 2000, Mr. Birak received the Bill Dennis Prospector of the Year award presented by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, for several copper and zinc deposit discoveries in the Flin Flon-Snow Lake region of Manitoba, Canada. He has a Master of Science degree in Geology from Bowling Green State University and has authored and co-authored several professional publications on the geology and metallurgy of sediment-hosted and epithermal precious metal deposits and on the use of geostatistics in resource modeling and grade control. More recently, Don has coauthored publications and presentations on the new US SEC S-K1300 regulation and on Best Practice in mineral exploration. Mr. Birak is an act...