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Andrée St-Germain, José Vizquerra named ‘Young Mining Professionals of the Year’ HONOURS
| The next generation of mining leaders
BY JOHN CUMMING jcumming@northernminer.com
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he Young Mining Professionals (YMP) — a nonprofit group with chapters in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Sudbury, Perth, Brisbane, Johannesburg and London — has given its Mining Professional of the Year awards for 2018 to Andrée St-Germain, chief financial officer of Integra Resources (TSXV: ITR; US-OTC: IRRZF) and José Vizquerra, executive vice-president of strategic development and a director of Osisko Mining (TSX: OSK; US-OTC: OBNNF). The YMP Awards, presented in association with The Northern Miner, are intended by the YMP to “recognize two young mining professionals, a male and a female, who over the past year, and during the course of their careers, have demonstrated exceptional leadership skills and innovative thinking to provide value for their companies and shareholders, as well as for themselves.” Nominees were under 40 years of age in 2018 and active in some aspect of the mining industry anywhere in the world. Voting on a selection of nominees was held in January by a committee representing YMP branches and The Northern Miner. St-Germain has been awarded the Eira Thomas Award (female), named after the iconic mining executive who first gained prominence for her role in growing the diamond miner Aber Resources, while Vizquerra has been awarded the Peter Munk Award (male), named after the legendary founder of Barrick Gold. The YMP Awards Gala to present St-Germain and Vizquerra with their awards will be held on the
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evening of March 2 at the ShangriLa Hotel in downtown Toronto, the day before the start of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention. Awards gala tickets are limite d a nd c a n b e b ou g ht at www.youngminingprofessionals. com/#awards. Barrick Gold, KPMG, Cassels Brock and Rio Tinto are the gala sponsors. YMP was established to help its members obtain the skills, support and knowledge to advance their mining careers, develop a network of contacts within the industry and find career and mining-related investment opportunities. YMP facilitates these objectives through its scholarship program, social events and high-profile guest speaker events.
Fremont Gold president Dennis Moore (far left), vice-president of exploration Clay Newton (centre, in orange vest) and CEO Blaine Monaghan (wearing glasses) with analysts at the Gold Bar gold project in Eureka County, Nevada . PHOTO BY RICHARD QUARISA
Fremont drills past producers
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| Exploring claims next to McEwen’s Gold Bar
BY RICHARD QUARISA
Andrée St-Germain Andrée St-Germain, 39, was born in Haiti and raised in Gatineau, Quebec. She earned a Bachelor in Business Administration from the Université du Québec (TÉLUQ) and an International Master of Business Administration (Honours) from York University’s Schulich School of Business. St-Germain began her career in investment banking working for Dundee Capital Markets, and interacted with mining companies on mergers and acquisitions advisory and financing. In 2013, St-Germain joined Golden Queen Mining as chief financial officer, where she played an instrumental role in securing project finance and overseeing Golden Queen as it transitioned from development and construction to commercial production. She joined Integra Gold as CFO in early 2017 and helped oversee its See AWARDS / 6
rquarisa@northernminer.com ELKO, NEVADA
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remont Gold (TSXV: FRE; US-OTC: USTDF) is drilling 1,000 reverse-circulation (RC) metres at its Gold Bar gold project, a two-hour drive from Elko, Nevada. It’s targeting a potential southeast extension of the past-producing Gold Bar pit, in an area that has never been drilled. It intends to follow up by diamond drilling 500 metres at its nearby Gold Canyon gold project. Both properties are part of the Battle Mountain-Eureka trend and are under option from Ely Gold Royalties (TSXV: ELY; US-OTC: ELYGF). They’re also both very close to McEwen Mining’s (TSX: MUX; NYSE: MUX) Gold Bar gold mine construction project. Gold Canyon, in particular, sits on inlying claims next to McEwen’s Gold Bar mine. To earn a 100% interest in its own Gold Bar project, Fremont will pay Ely US$1 million over five
years. Ely keeps a 2% net smelter return royalty that Fremont can halve for US$5 million. Atlas Precious Metals previously operated the Gold Bar mine from 1986–1994, producing 286,000 oz. gold at 2.74 grams gold. Fremont says a series of northeast–southwest faults offset the Gold Bar pit from the nearby Millsite deposit, which has a historical resource of 147,000 oz. gold at 2.57 grams gold per tonne. The company says the faults may also host the same mineralization southeast of Gold Bar. It has found coincident gold and mercury anomalies that support this idea, and partial halos of magnesium and niobium in the same area as well. It says these large alteration zones could indicate Carlin-type gold deposits. The zones sit a few minutes’ drive southeast from the Gold Bar pit to the RC drill the company turns in a nearby field, testing this theory. “Most people don’t talk about niobium, but I love niobium,” Fremont vice-president of exploration Clay Newton says during a site visit hosted by the company. “What
we see here is a great example of niobium zonation, where the magnesium stops and the niobium picks up. “We have a great target here. How deep it is, we’re going to find out.” See FREMONT / 2 PM40069240
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