Fortune Minerals Announces Appointment of Glen Koropchuk to Board Of Directors

Fortune Minerals Limited (TSX: FT) announced today that it has added Glen Koropchuk to its board of directors. Koropchuk is a mining engineer with nearly 30 years of executive management, mine operations, project management and corporate social investment work.
According to the press release:

Glen Koropchuk has had prodigious global experience within Anglo American Plc (“Anglo”) and its subsidiaries. Most recently, Mr. Koropchuk was Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) of De Beers Canada Inc., responsible for delivering safe, operational excellence from the Snap Lake and Victor diamond mines in Canada’s north. Notably, he also led the permitting, Aboriginal engagement, and project management for the $1 billion Gahcho Kue diamond mine in the Northwest Territories (“NT”) that was recently commissioned on time, reflecting a skill set that is particularly relevant to Fortune as it advances the vertically-integrated NICO Gold-Cobalt-Bismuth-Copper Project toward construction.
Mahendra Naik, Chairman of Fortune commented, “We are privileged to have Glen Koropchuk join our Board and augment the Company’s operational capacity with his extensive mine development experience at this critical period as we prepare the NICO Project for construction and commercial production.”

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