Westhaven Gold Appoints Robin Hopkins as VP of Exploration, Peter Fischl as Chief Geologist
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Westhaven Gold has appointed Robin Hopkins P.Geol. as vice-president of Exploration and Peter Fischl, P.Geo. as chief geologist.
Robin Hopkins is a professional geologist with almost 40 years’ experience exploring for non-fuel minerals throughout Canada, Greenland, and southern Africa. Starting in early 2020, Hopkins has provided technical advice to Westhaven related to the company’s properties in the Spence’s Bridge Gold Belt. Prior to his work with Westhaven, he served as vice-president of Exploration for Stornoway Diamond Corporation (2006 to 2019) and the chief technical officer of Stornoway’s predecessor company, Stornoway Ventures Ltd. (2003 to 2006). Between 2000 and 2004, Robin was vice-president, Exploration for Navigator Exploration Corporation, and prior to that a key member of the Aber Resources Ltd. team that discovered the Diavik Diamond Project pipes in the Northwest Territories in 1994. Hopkins is a graduate of the University of Waterloo (H.B.A.Sc. Earth Sciences).
Peter Fischl has been Westhaven’s exploration manager since 2018 but now will assume the role of chief geologist. Fischl was instrumental in the discovery and advancement of the south zone high-grade epithermal gold-silver deposit on the Shovelnose Gold Property and was the recipient of the 2019 H.H. “Spud” Huestis Award for significant contributions to enhancing the mineral resources of BC and/or Yukon Territory. Prior to Westhaven, Fischl spent more than twenty years exploring for epithermal gold deposits both internationally, including Kupol/Dvoinoye (Russia) and Hollister (Carlin Trend, Nevada), and locally Harmony/Cinola (BC).
Westhaven Gold is a gold-focused exploration company advancing the high-grade discovery on the Shovelnose project in Canada’s newest gold district, the Spences Bridge Gold Belt. Westhaven controls ~61,512 hectares (~615 square kilometers) with four gold properties spread along this underexplored belt. The Shovelnose property is situated off a major highway, near power, rail, large producing mines, and within commuting distance from the city of Merritt, which translates into low-cost exploration.
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