Appointment of Project Team Leader
KEY POINTS
- Focus split between project development and exploration
- Lindsays, Kalpini and Kurnalpi combining to create a single project (LKK Project)
- Mining experience plus local knowledge set to take the project forward
- Delineation program aimed at delivering revised Reserve and Resource estimates by 30 June 2011
Carrick Gold Limited (ASX:CRK) is pleased to announce the appointment of Sean Ashcroft to the position of Project Manager for the LKK Project. The LKK Project is a combination of the Lindsays, Kalpini and Kurnalpi projects all of which lie within an hour’s drive NE of Kalgoorlie. In this role Sean will be responsible for delineating and evaluating the various deposits with the scope of developing them into a single project. As the most senior member of Carrick’s Kalgoorlie based team he has an important role in co-ordinating activities, supervising work and mentoring staff.
Sean was the Senior Mine Geologist for Norton Gold Fields Ltd’s, Paddington Operation which lies approximately 37km E of Carrick’s Lindsay deposit. In this role he was responsible for coordinating all open pit mine geology activities at Paddington. Prior to this, he was Chief Geologist for A1 Minerals, responsible for the drafting and submission of all mine and environmental approvals, mine development and planning of the Beta minesite.
Importantly for Carrick, Sean has substantial experience in liaising with the government departments, shire approvals, dangerous goods licencing, mine development planning and scheduling, as well as providing technical mining direction.
In his role with Carrick, Sean will take the project through the drill-out, economic evaluation, assessment of treatment options and permitting, with the objective of being in production with a two-year timeframe.
Sean reports to Wade Johnson who joined Carrick recently as Exploration Manager. Wade’s significant experience in delineating discoveries while at Newmont further strengthens the new Carrick team.
Carrick has recently recruited to its Perth office a team of professionals to provide support for the existing Kalgoorlie based project team. This includes a Resource Geologist, GIS Specialist and in-house Tenements Manager. The Kalgoorlie office team is being expanded to include field geologists for both the LKK Project work and regional exploration.
Comment
Chief Executive Officer, John McKinstry said, “We are very pleased to welcome Sean to our team. His experience in mining and project development will prove valuable as we start evaluating the combined LKK Project and consider our options for treatment of ore.”
“This latest addition to Carrick’s professional staff follows the recent appointment of Wade Johnson as Exploration Manager. Carrick continues to build a first class team. We now have that mix of grass roots exploration experience, and people who know how to develop and operate mines.”
“The immediate task now is accelerating the delineation drilling program at Kurnalpi, so that we can deliver a new Reserve and Resource estimate by 30 June 2011. Stage 1 involves approximately 12,000m of RC drilling, which will commence as soon as the permit approval process allows.”
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