Kootenay Silver Brings on Accomplished Geologist Dale Brittliffe as Vice President Exploration
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Kootenay Silver has appointed Dale Brittliffe, P.Geo, to the position of VP Exploration.
“We are very pleased to have Dale rejoin the Kootenay Silver team. We know Dale well and he is both a great asset to the company and a complement to our team. We look forward to Dale’s guidance as we aim to develop our properties, including the incredibly promising Columba high-grade silver project in Columba, Mexico,” said Jim McDonald, CEO and president.
“We also want to acknowledge Dr. Tom Richards who continues as a mentor and advisor to the team in Mexico, as VP emeritus. Dr. Tom Richards has put together an incredible body of geologic work detailing the underlying regional geologic framework of our project areas and how they relate to mineralization and where to look for ore bodies,” added McDonald.
Dale Brittliffe is an accomplished geologist with more than 25 years experience in exploration for precious and base metals deposits in Canada, Mexico, and Australia. He has extensive experience in early-stage to late-stage precious and base metals exploration in a variety of geological settings. Brittliffe will be directly involved in the advancement of Kootenay’s Mexican projects, most notably the Columba Silver Project in Chihuahua, Mexico.
A graduate of Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia (1997), Brittliffe’s early career included grassroots exploration for gold, nickel, copper and tantalum/niobium across Australia as well as open pit mine production and near-mine brownfields exploration in the West Australian goldfields. In 2006 Mr. Brittliffe relocated to Vancouver, B.C. Canada and has held key roles in junior exploration companies focused on discovery and definition of gold and silver deposits in Western Canada and Mexico. Brittliffe worked previously for Kootenay Silver (2009-2010) as exploration geologist on projects in Sonora state Mexico, and most recently served as VP Exploration with Silver Viper Minerals Inc.
Brittliffe is a Professional Geoscientist in good standing with Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (EGBC), holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Geology, (Curtin University) in addition to a Bachelor of Science (Environmental) Botany from the University of Western Australia. Mr. Brittliffe has extensive experience in the natural sciences and a true passion for discovery.
About Kootenay Silver
Kootenay Silver Inc. is an exploration company actively engaged in the discovery and development of mineral projects in the Sierra Madre Region of Mexico and in British Columbia, Canada. Supported by one of the largest junior portfolios of silver assets in Mexico, Kootenay continues to provide its shareholders with significant leverage to silver prices. The company remains focused on the expansion of its current silver resources, new discoveries and the near-term economic development of its priority silver projects located in prolific mining districts in Sonora, State and Chihuahua, State, Mexico.
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