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Benchmark Appoints VP and Begins Engineering and Development Work Towards a Preliminary Economic Assessment
Edmonton, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - September 29, 2020) - Benchmark Metals Inc. (TSXV: BNCH...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Benchmark Appoints VP and Begins Engineering and Development Work Towards a Preliminary Economic AssessmentEdmonton, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - September 29, 2020) - Benchmark Metals Inc. (TSXV: BNCH) (OTCQB: BNCHF) (WKN: A2JM2X) (the \"Company\" or \"Benchmark\") is pleased to announce both the appointment of Mr. Ian Harris as Vice-President of Engineering and the engagement of JDS Energy & Mining Inc (JDS) as lead consultant to advance its flagship Lawyers Gold-Silver Project toward a Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA). In parallel, Benchmark is proceeding with advanced metallurgy, geotechnical, environmental baseline and permitting work. Building on its success in partnering with First Nations (see press release July 30, 2020), Benchmark intends to work closely and proactively with Partner Nations in the PEA and related studies to best prepare and design the project for environmental assessment entry with support from Partner Nations.John Williamson, CEO, commented, \"Benchmark has assembled a heavy-weight development team with a builder mentality to rapidly advance the Lawyers Project with a vision beyond PEA, running multiple ESG and engineering programs in parallel to reduce the critical path to a production decision. The addition of Ian Harris and JDS Engineering has created a formidable team who have developed, built and operated mines of a similar scope and scale. Together, they will coordinate a world-class consulting team including: Knight Piésold Consulting, Halyard Engineering, P&E Mining Consultants, F.Wright Consulting, APEX Geoscience Ltd., and One-eighty Consulting Group.\"Mr. Harris is an accomplished senior mining executive with over 20 years' experience in leading worldwide mining projects with companies such as Washington Group, Asarco, and Corriente Resources. Mr. Harris was educated at Virginia Tech, USA as a Mining Engineer and is a member of the Virginia Tech Advisory Board for the Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering. He has mining and management experience in over 20 countries with a wide range of surface and underground mining methods, commodities, project phases and sizes, successfully advancing projects in some of the most challenging environments. Mr. Harris has strong experience in project development, construction, restarts and commissioning facilities, including open-pit...