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Vancouver, British Columbia / TheNewswire / July 20, 2017 – Freeport Resources Inc.
(TSX-V: FRI) (“Freeport”) is pleased to announce appointment of Shervin Teymouri, M.Eng., P.Eng., as Director and Chief Operating
Officer. Founding Director, Michael Lee Roberts, P.E., stepping down to join the
Advisory Board after 36 years, is deeply thanked for his efforts.
Teymouri is a geological and mining engineer with broad
experience in all aspects of underground and open pit mines, from due diligence, detailed engineering, project
execution to reclamation. His expertise as an operations specialist for base, precious
metals and industrial mineral projects, including several tungsten and polymetallic mines in the Yukon, will greatly
assist advancement of Freeport's projects. Planned work includes:
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a) Hutton Garnet Beaches : Evaluate operational methods,
materials handling, capital and operating costs for our high grade, heavy mineral sands deposit on tidewater.
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b) Red Rose Mine : Economic analysis of potential rehabilitation
of our past tungsten-copper-gold producer near Smithers.
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c) Q Fluorspar : Assess open pit versus stope and pillar proposed in
Prefeasibility (Kilborn 1984).
With a master's in mining engineering and economics, Shervin was previously a senior mining engineer
with Roscoe Postle Associates. He is a mining entrepreneur with a greenfields industrial mineral operation in
production within a year, and founder of Mineit Consulting Inc. Shervin is an Adjunct Professor and
lecturer at the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering at UBC.
About Freeport
Freeport is a Canadian junior exploration company with a diverse portfolio of properties -- the Red
Rose Mine (a past producer of tungsten-gold-copper), Spanish Mountain Gold (adjacent to a proposed open-pit gold mine), and the Q
(a large, well-known fluorspar deposit), all located in British Columbia. The Hutton Garnet Beaches in NL is our most advanced
project, with a positive NI43-101 Prefeasibility (2004), and a 5000 tonne bulk sample released from environmental assessment.
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Freeport Resources Inc.
Brenda Clark AIBC Architect, President & CEO
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