New Appointments to TNXTan Range Announces Board Appointments
via COMTEX
October 23, 2003
VANCOUVER, Oct 23, 2003 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ --
Tan Range Exploration is pleased to announce the appointment of two new members to its Board of Directors.
Rosalind Morrow is a partner with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto where she practices Corporate and Securities Law. Her practice includes a special emphasis on financial services and communications sector financings and acquisitions, project and government financings and corporate governance. She is also a member of the firm's Securities and Capital Markets Law Group.
She advises issuers, underwriters and investors in connection with debt and equity offerings and investments, including domestic and trans-border public offerings and private placements, capital restructurings and corporate and securities law compliance.
In addition, she also represents government and private sector corporations, investors and lenders (including bank syndicates) in connection with debt offerings, project financings and public-private partnerships.
Ms. Morrow was seconded to the Ontario Securities Commission in 1988-90 as staff counsel in the corporate finance, enforcement and take-over bid branches where she participated in a number of important policy initiatives.
She graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto in 1982 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1984.
Also joining the Board of Tan Range Exploration is Ulrich Rath who serves as the President, CEO and Director of Chimera Gold Corp.
Mr. Rath was responsible for facilitating the $US67 million acquisition of gold operations in the East Rand region of South Africa that now produce more than 200,000 ounces gold per annum. Subsequently, the Board of Chimera agreed to a 1:1 merger with Bema Gold Corp.
Mr. Rath has over 26 years experience in the international mining industry including 13 years working for various companies associated with the Anglo-American Corporation and with its Gold Division in South Africa.
As President &CEO of Compania Minera Milpo, he helped transform a 50- year old Peruvian family-held company into a modern multinational mining company.
Prior to Milpo, Mr. Rath was VP Corporate Development at Rio Algom, where he helped transform Rio into an international copper mining company with world- class assets in South America.
Mr. Rath has a B.Sc. (Hon) from Concordia University in Montreal and an M.Sc. (Geology) from the University of Alberta.
James E. Sinclair, the Chairman and CEO of Tan Range, says the appointment of Ms. Morrow to the Board 'will ensure that we maintain the highest level of regulatory compliance possible while Mr. Rath's appointment will allow us to optimize our exploration activities in the Lake Victoria greenstone belt of Tanzania not only for gold but for other mineral commodities.'
On behalf of the Board of Directors 'James E. Sinclair' James E. Sinclair Chairman and Chief Executive Officer For further information, please contact Investor Relations at 1-800-811-3855 Visit the Tan Range website: www.tanrange.com