Altair Adds George Cavey to Advisory Board
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ALTAIR ADDS GEORGE CAVEY TO ADVISORY BOARD
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – January 16, 2017: ALTAIR RESOURCES INC. (“Altair” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: AVX; Germany FRA: 90A; ISIN: CA02137W1014; WKN: WKN A2ALMP) Mr. John Huguet, Chairman of the Board, is pleased to announce that Mr. George Cavey has agreed to serve on the Company’s Advisory Board.
Mr. Cavey is a senior consulting geologist with over 40 years of experience, since 1982 he has been the President of OreQuest Consultants, a company providing geological consulting to resource companies, both public and private companies. Mr. Cavey has supervised mineral exploration projects throughout North, South, and Central America as well as Europe and Africa since 1982. He has authored or been involved in, the writing of hundreds of geological reports for Canadian junior resource companies' prospectus and/or public financing documents.
He is past president of the Canadian Council of Professional Geoscientists and was the recipient of the 2004 C.J. Westerman Memorial Award - BC’s highest recognition award for a professional geoscientist for his outstanding and professional contributions. Mr Cavey was the recipient of the 2010 Canadian Professional Geoscientist Award - the highest recognition award for a professional geoscientist in Canada. In addition, Mr. Cavey has acted as a consultant to both the BC Securities Commission and the TSX Venture Exchange in matters relating to 43-101 mining and mineral exploration disclosure issues from 2001 until present. He is currently a member of the Canadian Securities Administrators Mining Technical Monitoring and Advisory Committee.
Mr. Cavey was VP Exploration for Orko Silver Corp and was directly involved in the discovery of the 265 million ounce La Preciosa silver deposit in Mexico. Orko Silver was acquired by Coeur Mining in April 2013 for $380,000,000. Mr. Cavey is an officer and director of OK2 Minerals Ltd., a new junior resource company focused on exploration in northern BC.
Said Mr. Huguet “George's years of experience and excellence in the field and in reporting results brings great value to the shareholders of Altair as we are about to advance on our Invictus Zinc program for 2017.”
To learn more about Altair, please visit http://altairresources.com.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD,
“John Huguet”
John Huguet, FCPA, FCMA Chairman and Independent Director
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