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Hana Mining Ltd. announced that it has appointed Mr. Fouché (Sas) du Plessis Burgers as Chief Geologist of the Ghanzi Copper-Silver Project.
Mr. Burgers, Hons. B.Sc., is a professional mining and exploration geologist and a certified rock mechanics engineer. He has more than 30 years’ experience in exploration, underground and open pit mining operations in South Africa, Mozambique, Ghana and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He held multiple high level management positions including Chief Mining and Exploration Geologist, Consulting Geologist, Technical Services Manager, Ore Resource Manager and Business Unit Leader (Mine Manager). Mr. Burgers is member of the Geological Society of South Africa. He is also registered as a Natural Scientist (Pri, Sci, Nat) with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions. From March 2009 until recently, Mr. Burgers worked for Metorex Ltd., as the Ore Resource Manager at Ruashi, a stratiform copper mine in the DRC where he was instrumental in their dramatic resource increase. He was also the Competent Person at the mine and responsible for signing off the mine’s Resource Model and Competent Persons Report (CPR) to Metorex. His managerial involvement includes defining, modeling and expanding the ore body according to the SAMREC code of compliancy. He also managed the Exploration geology, Mining geology, Survey, Geo-hydrology, Mine planning and Geo-technical departments assisted by various consultants. His department was also responsible for the life of mine modeling, the increase in the ore reserve and the 2-year operational plan. Mr. Burgers’ most recent position with Metorex was as the Regional Geologist DRC to expand the base metal interest of Metorex within the DRC. Mr. Burgers has been granted 200,000 incentive stock options exercisable at a price of $1.27 per share expiring on August 12, 2016. All securities issued upon exercise of the Options are subject to a hold period expiring four months after the date of grant. The subject Options will vest upon the successful completion of certain project and corporate objectives. The Options are subject to the terms and conditions of the Company's Stock Option Plan. Hana Mining’s new Chief Geologist, Sas Burgers, commented as follows: “When I look at where the Ghanzi Project currently is and its astonishing exploration potential, it reminds me of Metorex’s assets a couple of years ago. I believe that the Ghanzi Project has the potential to host billions of pounds of additional copper-silver resources making it a true world-class asset. I look forward to working with the rest of the Hana management team on this exciting opportunity to unlock the value of our outstanding asset.” |
