NVDEF - Nevada Exploration Forms Advisory Board and Appoints Former Uranerz Uranium Professionals | Benzinga
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nevada Exploration Inc. ("NGE" or the "Company") (TSXV:NGE, OTCQB:NVDEF) is pleased to announce the formation of an Advisory Board comprised of key uranium professionals who were previous Directors and Officers of Uranerz Energy Corporation ("Uranerz").
The Uranerz team explored, permitted, built and operated the Nichols Ranch ISR uranium project, which led to Uranerz being acquired in 2015 by Energy Fuels Inc. in a $350 million business combination. Energy Fuels is a leading U.S. producer of uranium and vanadium and trades on the NYSE American ("UUUU") and TSX ("EFR").
Professionals from Uranerz appointed to the Nevada Exploration Advisory Board include Dr. Gerhard Kirchner, Glenn Catchpole, Arnold Dyck, and Paul Saxton. A description of each of their backgrounds follows. More information about Uranerz is also available below.
Dipl.Ing. Dr.mont Gerhard F. Kirchner, P.Eng.
Dr. Kirchner has forty years of international mine development and management experience including the definition/discovery of the world's second largest molybdenum deposit (Malmbjerget in NE-Greenland), the development of the copper-cobalt mine Kamoto in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and twenty years with Uranerz Exploration and Mining Ltd. He received a multidisciplinary education in mining engineering and economic geology, and a Doctorate in Mining Sciences from the University of Leoben, Austria.
At Uranerz Exploration and Mining, Dr. Kirchner spent nine years as General Manager and eleven years as Senior Vice President. He and his team were responsible for the Key Lake uranium discovery in Canada which led to the development of the largest, lowest operating cost uranium mine in the world producing over 200 million pounds of yellowcake before the reserves were exhausted. Dr. Kirchner was responsible for the acquisition of Uranerz Exploration and Mining's share of the Star Lake and the Midwest deposits, the Crow Butte property, and the orderly engineering and development of these deposits and operations.
Dr. Kirchner served as a Director of Uranerz Energy Corporation from inception in 2005 until its acquisition by Energy Fuels in 2015.
Glenn Catchpole, M.S., P.Eng. (retired)
Mr. Catchpole is a licensed engineer who holds an M.S. in civil engineering from Colorado State University. He has been active in the uranium solution mining industry since 1978, holding various positions including well field engineer, project manager, general manager and managing director of several uranium in-situ recovery mining operations.
In 1988 Mr. Catchpole joined Uranerz U.S.A., Inc. and Uranerz Exploration and Mining Ltd. and became Director of ...