Redstar Gold Appoints Peter Ball as President & CEO

Published: January 26, 2016 |

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Redstar Gold Corp. has appointed Peter A. Ball as president and CEO.

Peter Ball, with over 25 years of extensive experience and leadership as a mining professional, is known to have an intense drive, passion and energy required to deliver on the market’s expectations. He is joining Redstar from Columbus Gold, where he was senior vice-president, business and corporate development. Columbus Gold controls 100 percent of the multi-million ounce Paul Isnard Gold Project in French Guiana, and also multiple projects in Nevada.

Throughout Ball’s career, he has held various senior management roles with international precious metals mining companies in corporate finance, securities trading, mine engineering, business development, corporate communications, public relations and marketing functions throughout North and South America, Asia, and Europe. Ball began his career in the late 1980s working as a mining engineer, a technical representative, and in various management and senior executive roles for numerous companies including Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting, Echo Bay Mines Ltd., RBC Dominion Securities, Eldorado Gold Corp., Adriana Resources Inc., and Argentex Mining Corp. Ball is a graduate of the Haileybury School of Mines, Georgian Business College, UBC’s Canadian Securities Course and is a member of CIMM.

“We are very pleased that Peter is joining Redstar’s management team. We know and look forward to Peter bringing the same energy, professionalism and diligence that he contributed to Columbus Gold, which helped make it one of the best performing gold companies in the Canadian equity markets in 2014 and into 2015. The Redstar portfolio of projects, including our district scale Unga Gold Project, are very encouraging and require the type of leadership that Peter is capable of offering. We believe that Unga, with its dual trends of epithermal low to intermediate sulphidation mineralization and gold showings over 19 km (2 x 9.5 km), is currently amongst the most exciting and prospective gold projects in North America. The Unga property also hosted the Apollo-Sitka Mine, which was Alaska’s first underground gold mine from 1886-1922, and historical reports indicated production of approximately 150,000 gold ounces at a grade of approximately 10 g/t,” said Jacques Vaillancourt, executive chairman of Redstar Gold.

About Redstar Gold
Redstar is a junior exploration company focused on high-grade gold exploration in North America. In Alaska, the company is exploring the 100 percent owned high-grade Unga Gold Project, which was initially acquired in 2011. The Unga Gold Project contains several high-grade gold/silver vein systems, two of which, Apollo & Sitka were sites of historic high-grade gold production and hosts Alaska’s first underground gold mine. The company completed an eight hole, 1,500 meter diamond drill program in May 2015 on the Shumagin Gold Zone which yielded several very high gold grade intersections, such as 202g/t Au over 1.9 m and 35.3g/t Au over 2m. This drill program demonstrated continuity of the Shumagin Gold Zone at depth and along strike.

Redstar has a portfolio of eleven properties in Nevada located along and within many of the gold producing trends. In 2005 Redstar acquired AngloGold Ashanti’s entire Nevada database after AngloGold redirected its exploration focus from North America to South America. Following the purchase of the database and over several years Redstar assembled the current portfolio of properties. Redstar will be seeking suitable partners to advance its Nevada portfolio.

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