Riversgold Ltd (ASX:RGL) has welcomed experienced geologist and resource professional Edward Mead as a non-executive director (NED) to the RGL Board of Directors.
RGL will benefit from Mead’s 27 years of experience in mineral exploration, mine development and mine production.
Mead will take up the position straight away.
“Ed is well versed in mineral exploration in the Pilbara and Southern Cross areas and will provide valuable support as an NED for RGL’s CEO Julian Ford and the entire RGL team as we push forward with our lithium initiatives at Tambourah and Mt Holland,” Riversgold executive chairman David Lenigas said.
More about Mead
The highly regarded geologist has worked on geological settings that are not limited to but include copper-gold porphyries, epithermal and orogenic gold deposits, mafic and ultramafic layered intrusions for nickel-copper and platinum group elements, volcanic-hosted massive sulphides (VMS, VHMS) for copper, zinc and silver, felsic intrusions such as pegmatites for lithium and supergene deposits for commodities such as uranium, and sedimentary basins for coal, iron ore and oil and gas.
Mead’s work with lithium companies includes being central to the acquisition of the Wolfsberg Lithium Project in Austria by East Coast Minerals NL in 2012.
He is also very familiar with the Southern Cross to Marvel Loch greenstone belt having worked for Sons of Gwalia in the region between 1996-2001.