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Tudor Gold Hires Ken Konkin, P.Geo. as Exploration Manager
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - January 7, 2019) -   Tudor Gold Corp. (T...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Tudor Gold Hires Ken Konkin, P.Geo. as Exploration ManagerVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - January 7, 2019) -  Tudor Gold Corp. (TSXV: TUD) (FSE: TUC) (the \"Company\" or \"Tudor Gold\") announces the hiring of Mr. Ken Konkin, P.Geo. as Exploration Manager. Mr. Konkin will oversee exploration of Tudor Gold's flagship property, Treaty Creek, as well as several other Tudor Gold properties located within the prolific Eskay-Sulphurets-Premier gold belt. The Treaty Creek property adjoins to the north of Pretium Resources' Brucejack-Snowfield property and Seabridge Gold's KSM property, along the geological trend. Drilling at Treaty Creek in 2018 was very successful, especially the final hole which returned a significant intercept of 0.981 g/t gold over 563.8 meters.Mr. Konkin has over 35 years of geological experience throughout North and South America as well as Russia. Ken Konkin worked for Silver Standard for 19 years and managed advanced exploration programs at Manantial Espejo (Argentina), San Luis and Berenguela (Peru) as well as Snowfields (Pretium) in the Golden Triangle, BC. Mr. Konkin was appointed the Project Manager for Pretium Resources after it purchased the Snowfields-Brucejack Project from Silver Standard in 2010. Subsequently, he was instrumental in the discovery of The Valley of Kings deposit at the Brucejack Lake Mine, an 8 million ounce gold deposit currently in production. He spent seven years managing all aspects of the exploration programs at Snowfield-Brucejack. During his tenure with Pretium, the company received the Bill Dennis Award in 2013 for a Canadian discovery (presented by the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada); Mr. Konkin was also the co-recipient of the prestigious H.H. \"Spud\" Huestis Award for \"excellence in prospecting and mineral exploration in B.C. and/or Yukon\" in 2017. Mr. Konkin states: \"I'm very excited about being given the opportunity to work with Tudor Gold Corp on all its projects within the Golden Triangle. I look forward to building an exploration team that is capable of fast-tracking and advancing the status of each project as quickly as possible. We will begin immediately with detailed examination of the recent drill results obtained from the 2018 Treaty Creek diamond drill program as well as all the historical drill results for the Treaty Cree...