Dolly Varden Silver Corp. (
TSX: V.DV) announced the addition of Hans Madeisky to Dolly Varden's Technical Advisory Committee and to his role as senior consulting Geochemist.
Madeisky has over 40 years' industry experience and is a world leading expert on the alteration and geochemisty of VMS-type deposits.
According to the
Dolly Varden press release, his analysis will be highly complementary as Dolly Varden begins its summer drill program to define and expand its historic silver resources, and identify an Eskay-Creek style precious metal rich VMS target related to the interpreted source alteration - feeder zone located at Red Point, just northwest of the historic Torbrit mine.
Madeisky joins Greg Hall and Ron Netolitzky on the Technical Advisory Committee.
Hall was formally the chief geologist at Placer Dome and is one of the mining industry's thought leaders in the development and integration of geochemical and lithogeochemical exploration techniques with other geoscientific exploration tools.
Netolitzky was instrumental in the discoveries of Eskay Creek, the Snip Mine and Brewery Creek gold deposits in BC and the Yukon, which earned him The Prospector of the Year Award in 1990 from the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada.
Additionally, the company said Keith Margetson, CA, CPA (Illinois) has been appointed as CFO effective immediately.
Margetson qualified as a chartered accountant in 1975 and has operated his own accounting firm, K.R. Margetson Ltd. Chartered Accountants, since 1992.
Dolly Varden is a Canadian-based mineral exploration company focused on the exploration and development of the 100% owned, historic Dolly Varden silver and gold property located in northwestern British Columbia.
On Wednesday, Dolly Varden rose 6.7% and was trading at $0.16 a share. The company had a market cap of $21 million, base on 131.4 million shares outstanding.