Cerrado Gold (TSXV: CERT | OTCQX: CRDOF) has announced that Mr. Clinton Swemmer has been appointed as chief technical officer for the company.
The appointment reflects Mr. Swemmer’s ongoing contribution to the company, including the heap leach and underground development programmes at the company’s Minera Don Nicolas, Argentina and the ongoing feasibility study and development plans at its Monte do Carmo Project, Brazil.
Mark Brennan, CEO and co-chairman commented “We are very pleased to appoint Clinton as Chief Technical Officer and with the addition of Erich Meintjes. Cerrado’s Technical Services Group bring a disciplined approach to the development of our projects that rivals the capabilities that have been provided historically by external consultants. To have the internal capability to direct development programmes has reduced project timelines significantly not to mention it has also significantly reduced project costs.”
Mr. Swemmer is a senior professional with a career spanning over 20 years focused on project delivery. Prior to joining Cerrado, held the position of vice president of project delivery for treasury metals, a mining company where he managed the study and trade-offs to maximize NPV and meet the technical requirements of the environmental and permit process. He also held the position as vice president of project delivery, North America for Ausenco, managed the teams responsible for EPC wards of the Magino Gold Mine, Las Chispas Mine, and the Blackwater Gold Mine.
Prior to Ausenco, he served as director of projects, mining, and minerals for Amec Foster Wheeler, where he was project Manager for the Kinross Gold Round Mountain and Bald Mountain Projects and was actively involved in the development of the IAMGOLD Côté Gold Project as well managed the portfolio for PFS and FS that included the Spring Valley Gold Mine and the Sukhoi Log Gold Mine.
In addition, he previously served as Vice President of Projects for DRA Americas responsible for all PFS, FS, and Projects in the region that included delivery of the Renard Diamond Mine processing facility in Quebec, Labrador Iron Mines processing plant and numerous cold weather projects.
The company has also hired Mr. Erich Meintjes as director of engineering to support the ongoing engineering requirements for both Monte do Carmo and Minera Don Nicolas.
Mr. Meintjes has over 27 years of experience in the mining industry and joins from DRA Global, where as a senior vice president of engineering he worked on numerous large scale projects focused on mining infrastructure and mineral beneficiation across a broad range of commodities. Mr. Meintjes’ specific expertise lies in project execution, schedule planning, engineering design, procurement, expediting, construction, commissioning and handover of mining and processing plants.
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