Vancouver, British Columbia / TheNewswire / May 3, 2017 (TSX-V: BCK) - Blind Creek Resources Ltd. ("Blind Creek" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Brian P. Fowler, P.Geo., as President of the Company.
Mr. Fowler has 38 years of mineral exploration experience from grassroots work to feasibility studies and mine development, and has fulfilled roles in the exploration industry from field geologist to corporate executive and director. Mr. Fowler's career includes project identification, acquisition and advancement throughout Canada and internationally, exploring for a wide range of commodities including gold, silver and base metals.
From 1991 to 2004, Mr. Fowler worked in a variety of technical and managerial roles for Placer Dome Inc., where he managed a regional exploration office and a number of advanced stage, feasibility-level projects and evaluations (Musselwhite, Mt. Milligan, Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell, South Deeps) and directed Minex exploration at a number of the Company's mines throughout the world. In 2004 - 2005 Mr. Fowler was Exploration Manager for Quadra Mining Ltd., where he evaluated and managed a number of advanced and prefeasibility exploration evaluations and projects in Canada, the United States, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Australia (Carlotta, Sierra Gorda, Magistral). Mr. Fowler then worked as a mining consultant and analyst for Quest Capital Corp. until 2007. Subsequent to this, Mr. Fowler worked primarily as a mining executive and was a founding director of a number of publicly traded junior exploration companies including BCGold Corp., Laurentian Goldfields Ltd., Reservoir Capital Corp., Oro Silver Resources Ltd. and RedQuest Capital Corp.
Mr. Fowler is a long standing member of APEGBC, the Society of Economic Geologists and Fellow of the Geological Association of Canada.
About Blind Creek
Blind Creek is a Vancouver-based junior resource company that has been listed on the TSX Venture Exchange for 14 years. The Company's primary focus is zinc-lead silver, and more recently gold and silver exploration and development in British Columbia, Yukon and the Northwest Territories. The Company's flagship property is the Blende Project in north-central Yukon, one of the largest undeveloped Zn-Pb-Ag deposits in Western Canada. More recently the company has acquired a 100% interest in the historic and fully-permitted Engineer Gold Mine, situated 32 km southwest of Atlin, B.C. While the Company will remain focused on developing its key Blende Project, the Company recently tripled the Engineer Gold Mine property size to 11,556 hectares and plans to commence a 2017 work program that is to include soil geochemical surveys, trenching, geological mapping, sampling, diamond drilling and preparation of a NI43-101 technical report.
