First Mining Gold Corp (TSX: FF) (OTCQX: FFMGF) has appointed Jeff Reinson as Chief Operating Officer (COO).
Mr Reinson brings over 25 years of project and engineering leadership experience to the role and has extensive experience through the study, construction, and operational phases of project development.
Most recently, he was Interim General Manager of Greece Operations at Eldorado Gold. Prior to Eldorado, he was Vice President, Project Development at Bluestone Resources where he was responsible for delivering the feasibility study at the Cerro Blanco gold project in Guatemala.
Mr Reinson’s other roles include Project Director of the Peñasquito Mine in Mexico at Goldcorp with a focus on tailings and water management where he was responsible for leading capital programs ranging from $50 million to $750 million including a tailings storage facility expansion, oxide heap leach expansion and other infrastructure expansions and upgrades.
He has held other project roles with AngloGold Ashanti, Newmont and Rio Tinto.
“We are very excited to have Jeff join the First Mining team. Jeff brings many years of extensive project development experience at many projects throughout the world and has been instrumental in advancing them through the project development life cycle,” First Mining, CEO, Dan Wilton, said.
“In particular, Jeff’s expertise in project development and water and tailings management will be especially important as we enter the feasibility stage at Springpole this year.
“Jeff will be an important asset to First Mining, and we look forward to Jeff playing a critical role in the development of Springpole and our other portfolio projects.”
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