Brush Creek Mining Adds to its Professional Staff
BusinessWire, Friday, October 24, 1997 at 11:32
GRASS VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 1997--Brush
Creek Mining and Development Co. Inc. (NASDAQ:BCMD) today announced
that it recently hired a new mine superintendent, geologist, and mill
superintendent as well as an additional mining engineer.
The new mine superintendent is Stan Griffith. Much of his
30-year mining career was spent in underground vein deposits
similar to the Alleghany-Downieville mining district where Brush
Creek's properties are located. He ran his own company, Griffith
Exploration, and also worked for Lion Trails Mining, among others.
Arthur Smith, Brush Creek's new geologist, is a 1994 graduate of
the Colorado School of Mines. There, he earned a master's degree in
geology. He is credited with discovering a base metal deposit and a
smaller gold deposit in the Russell Gulch district of Colorado. He
has 20 years of experience in mining. Smith has spent time with
Western States Mining.
Vern Shepherd is the company's new mill superintendent. He began
his mining career in 1969. In addition to designing and constructing
several mill circuits, he has worked as a mine superintendent and in
high levels of mining management. Shepherd worked for a number of
companies during his career including Hecla.
Bill Watters, a mining engineer who graduated from the Mackey
School of Mines in 1978 and spent the last four years in the
Motherlode district mostly with Siskon gold, joins Odin Strandberg, a
mining engineer with over 30 years of experience who is currently
employed by the company.
As previously announced, William Rohtert, a geologist with
considerable expertise in unusual diamond occurrences, has recently
joined the company as a consultant. He will assist Brush Creek with
its potentially diamondiferous land holdings near LaPorte, Calif.
James S. Chapin, CEO and chairman of the board, stated: "I am
extremely pleased with the caliber of our new additions. We now
have in place an experienced, professional technical staff which
should allow us to take full advantage of the potential of our
property package."
Brush Creek controls nine gold mines in the Alleghany/Downieville
area of Northern California.
CONTACT: Brush Creek Mining and Development Co. Inc.
Lionel Gosselin, 888/272-7335
Jim Chapin, 916/477-5961
KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: MINING/METALS MANAGEMENT CHANGES
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