TORONTO, April 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stone Gold Inc. ( TSX-V: STG ) (" Stone Gold " or the " Company ") announces the appointment of Birks Bovaird to its Board of Directors. Mr. Bovaird is a Consultant, providing advisory services to natural resource companies. For the majority of his career, Mr. Bovaird's focus has been the provision and implementation of corporate financial consulting and strategic planning services. After spending over two decades with various financial institutions, culminating in the role of Managing Director of the Canadian operations of an international bank, he took on the role of Vice President of Corporate Finance for one of Canada’s major accounting firms. Mr. Bovaird has previously been involved with numerous public resource and non-resource companies, both as a member of management and as a director.
Mr. Bovaird is a Director and Chairman of the Board of Energy Fuels Inc., a uranium, vanadium and rare earths mining, development and production company. He is also currently Chairman of the Board of Buccaneer Gold Corp. and is an independent Director and Chair of the compensation committee of Noble Mineral Resources.
Mr. Bovaird is a graduate of Concordia University in Montreal, and a graduate of the Directors Education Program of the Institute of Corporate Directors at the Rotman School of Business and holds the ICD.D designation.
The Company also announces Mr. Brian Howlett’s resignation from the Board of Stone Gold due to conflicting business interests. Mr. Howlett remains a committed shareholder of Stone Gold and holds 1,649,000 shares and 240,750 warrants of the Company or 6.7% on a fully diluted basis.
Stone Gold President and CEO John Timmons comments, “We thank Mr. Howlett for his business acumen and efforts which have led to the creation of an emerging Canadian gold and copper exploration Company. We wish him continued success as he expands his business interests.”
For further information, please contact:
Mr. John Timmons
President & CEO
Stone Gold Inc.
Cellular (416) 931 2243
Email: jtimmons@stonegold.ca
Web: www.stonegold.ca
Stone Gold Inc. is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and evaluation of properties for the mining of precious and base metals. The Company is currently exploring in Red Lake, Ontario and Batchewana Bay, Ontario.
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