Mr. John Ryder reports
DIANOR RESOURCES ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF JIM STEEL MBA P.GEO AS NEW DIRECTOR
Jim Steel, MBA, PGeo, has been appointed to Dianor Resources Inc.'s board of directors. Mr. Steel has over 25 years of experience in global precious metal, base metal and diamond exploration as well as both buy-side and sell-side investment analysis and asset management. He is a mining geologist with an MBA from the London Business School, London, United Kingdom, and currently chairs the registration committee of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO).
He has worked as an analyst in international equity investment and mining corporate finance in Europe and was a co-manager of the TD Greenline precious metals and resource mutual funds in Canada. He has experience in mine development projects, property valuations and corporate acquisitions as well as mineral resource estimation in the context of scoping studies and preliminary economic assessments. He was an integral part of the exploration team that discovered the Ujina copper deposit at the giant Collahuasi complex in Chile, now in production. For the past 10 years, he has been the managing director of Mining Insights Inc., a research firm specializing in buy-side mining equity research, portfolio risk analysis, independent value assessment, in mergers and acquisitions, and in value-oriented geoscientific and analytical consulting. He is fluent in English, French and Spanish.