by Greg Klein | July 27, 2017
Flush with $10.1 million in recent financings and data from an extensive drill campaign, Aurvista Gold TSXV:AVA continues to beef up its personnel. Three days after announcing nominees for an expanded board of directors, the company named its appointees to a newly created technical advisory committee to help further the Douay gold project in Quebec’s Abitibi.
“We are in a period of growth and transition and will continue putting the best people, processes and systems in place,” said president/CEO Matthew Hornor, himself a newcomer as of last May. “We are going to take a hard look at all of the project data and results to date and complete the necessary exploration and preparation work to ensure our technical decision-makers have the information and resources required to succeed.”
Just nominated to the board of directors, David Broughton and Maurice Tagami join the advisory committee as well.
Mining engineer R. Dennis Bergen’s 40-plus years of experience include managing the Golden Bear gold mine in northern British Columbia, the Cantung tungsten mine in the Northwest Territories and the Ketza River gold mine in the Yukon.
Electrical engineer John Casson specializes in infrastructure design, project evaluation and implementation analysis in world class mining and beneficiation projects. He has held senior positions on major projects including Voisey’s Bay, Mary River and the El Aouj iron ore project in Mauritania.
Previously Aurvista’s president/CEO, Jean Lafleur now moves from his current position as VP of exploration into the advisory committee. He was instrumental in discovering new reserves for McWatters Mining gold projects in the Val-d’Or and Malartic camps, as well as developing a bulk gold exploration program at the Canadian Malartic property.
Thanking Lafleur for his service, Hornor said, “He has done an admirable job leading exploration and will continue to be a key contributor as we shift to a committee approach to integrate some of the brightest minds in the industry into our exploration planning and strategy going forward.”
Aurvista’s 30,500-hectare Douay project has a highway and transmission lines crossing the property and benefits from the Abitibi region’s labour, supplies and services. A March resource update, using a 0.5 g/t cutoff, calculated an inferred category for seven zones totalling 83.3 million tonnes averaging 1.05 g/t for 2.81 million gold ounces.
The recently completed spring/summer drill program totalled 59 holes and 23,965 metres.
