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VIKING MINES LIMITED — Board/Management Information 2021
Jul 21, 2021
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Board/Management Information
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ASX ANNOUNCEMENT
VIKING MINES APPOINTS NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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David Hall joins the board as non-executive director
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35 Years industry experience, most recently with major gold mining companies Newmont and Northern Star
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Extensive Corporate Development exposure and involvement with major gold deposit transactions such as Jundee and the Golden Mile
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Brings additional and complimentary skills to the Viking Board
Viking Mines Executive Chairman Ray Whitten said:
“I am delighted that David is joining the Viking Board as we continue to progress our operations, particularly at First Hit. David’s experience will make an invaluable addition to the Viking Board, bringing additional complimentary skills and experience to support the long term growth and strategic objectives of the Company. I look forward to the contributions he will bring to the Company.”
Viking Mines Limited (ASX: VKA) (“Viking” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce the appointment of David Hall as Non-Executive Director of the Company, effective immediately.
Mr Hall joins the Company as an accomplished Mining Professional with 35 continuous years of experience in the gold and base metals sector. Notably, across the last 15 years Mr Hall has gained extensive experience in Corporate Development, with large gold mining organisations, including Newmont and Northern Star. He has been directly involved with transactions of major gold deposits, notably Jundee and the Golden Mile in Western Australia and is very familiar within the jurisdiction within which Viking is focussed.
Through his appointment to the Company as a Non-Executive Director, Mr Hall brings a wealth of strong gold industry knowledge in the Australian, SE Asian, African and European regions to Viking and provides additional complimentary skills to support the direction and contribute to the development of the strategy of the Company.
This announcement has been authorised for release by the Board of the Company.
For further information, please contact: Viking Mines Limited Dean Jagger Company Secretary 02 8072 1447
ASX:VKA vikingmines.com
P +61 2 8072 1400 F +61 2 8072 1440
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ABOUT VIKING MINES
Viking Mines is a gold focussed company with the First Hit Project located 150km NW of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia being the primary asset under exploration.
Viking have an aggressive exploration strategy to explore for high grade gold occurrences and discover ounces along fertile gold structures. The historically mined, First Hit gold mine is the focus of Vikings activity to deliver on this strategy. Rapid advancement and exploration are occurring to explore, discover and develop gold ounces at the Project. The strategy will generate shareholder value through the discovery of new gold resources.
First Hit Project, Western
Australia
The First Hit Project is centred around the historic high-grade First Hit gold mine situated along the prospective Ida and Zuleika Shear zones in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia. The Project incorporates ~28km[2] of tenements with 6 active Mining and Prospecting licences and 1 Exploration licence under application. At the core of this landholding is a 6.4km[2] group of contiguous tenements which host the historic First Hit gold mine.
Prior to closure of the First Hit gold mine by Barra Resources in 2002 and at a time of depressed gold prices of US$ 320/oz, the First Hit mine produced ~30koz ounces of gold at an average grade of ~7.7g/t Au. No modern exploration activity has been conducted in the past 18 years and creates a significant opportunity for Viking. The Company is focused on delivering exploration programmes to test near mine extensions and regional targets around the First Hit Project with the objective of defining fertile structures and discovering gold ounces.
Examples of the high-grade nature of the mineralisation previously drilled at First Hit include:
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4.9m at 64.8g/t Au from 62.1m (FHU045)[1]
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3m at 77.6g/t Au from 224.0m (BFH030)[ 1]
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4m at 26.1g/t Au from 58.0m (BFH005)[ 1]
The Project area is well serviced by infrastructure and is located 50km west of the sealed Goldfields highway and the township of Menzies. The nearest operating Gold Processing Plant is the Davyhurst Mill 50km to the south, owned and operated by Ora Banda Mining (ASX:OBM). The nearest operating gold mine is the Riverina open pit, located 8km south of the First Hit gold mine, owned by OBM.
The Company also has projects located in Ghana and Mongolia. Viking is currently undergoing legal proceedings to secure an outstanding payment of US$ 5 million, associated with the sale of the Akoase project in Ghana.
Forward-Looking Statements
This document may include forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning Viking Mines Limited’s planned exploration program and other statements that are not historical facts. When used in this document, the words such as "could," "plan," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may”, "potential," "should," and similar expressions are forward-looking statements. Although Viking Mines Limited believes that its expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, such statements involve risks and uncertainties and no assurance can be given that actual results will be consistent with these forward-looking statements.
1ASX announcement dated 26th November 2020
ASX:VKA | vikingmines.com
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