Toronto, Ontario (FSCwire) - Tartisan Resources Corp. (CSE: TTC) ("Tartisan or the Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Denis Laviolette to the board of directors of the Company effective immediately.
Mr. Laviolette, has a B.Sc, Earth Science (Geology), and has over 10 years of experience in exploration, advanced mine operations, start-up mine management, QA/QC, grass roots exploration, financing and acquisitions, working in Northern Ontario (Timmins, Kirkland Lake and Red Lake), Norway and Ghana. Denis is also experienced with respect to GIS, 3D-modeling, resource delineation/estimation and large scale regional target delineation and production work, with a focus in Archean meso-thermal gold terranes and structural geology.
Mr. Laviolette has been a mining analyst with Pinetree Capital Ltd. ("Pinetree") in Toronto and now works as a mining analyst and is VP of corporate development for Brownstone Energy ("Brownstone"). His responsibilities include market/portfolio analysis, reviewing and vetting assets from a technical perspective and providing valuation estimates, analyzing and summarizing technical reports on resources, feasibility and corporate financial statements. Mr. Laviolette is also chief geologist/partner/operator of M.A. Resources Ltd., a privately held alluvial mining and exploration company in Ghana. Mr. Laviolette received his B.Sc, Earth Science (Geology) from Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario.
La Victoria Property, Perú
La Victoria, Tartisan’s royalty-free flagship project is located in northern Ancash Department, and comprises seven wholly-owned (7) Mining Rights (the “Claims” or the “Concessions”) totaling 3442 hectares (“Ha”) in size; and Mining Rights pending totaling 1400 Ha. The Property has good infrastructure with access to road, water and electricity and is located at an altitude that ranges 3,100 m to 4,200 m above sea level.
La Victoria is located within 50 km of several producing mines including: La Arena owned by Tahoe Resources, Lagunas Norte (Alto Chicama) owned by Barrick Gold Corporation (TSX:ABX) and Santa Rosa owned by Compañia Minera Aurífera Santa Rosa (COMARSA).
Tartisan Resources Corp. common shares are listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE:TTC). Currently, there are 43,634,982 shares outstanding (44,484,982 fully diluted).
For further information, please contact Mr. D. Mark Appleby, President & CEO and a Director of the Company, at 416-804-0280 (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Mr. Luc Pigeon B.Sc., M.Sc., P.Geo. is the Company’s QP and serves as the GM of Minera Tartisan Peru. Mr. Pigeon can be contacted at +51986651325 (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Additional information about Tartisan can be found at the Company’s website at www.tartisanresources.com or on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
This news release may contain forward-looking statements including but not limited to comments regarding the timing and content of upcoming work programs, geological interpretations, receipt of property titles, potential mineral recovery processes, etc. Forward-looking statements address future events and conditions and therefore, involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements.
The Canadian Securities Exchange (operated by CNSX Markets Inc.) has neither approved nor disapproved of the contents of this press release.
