New Guinea Gold Announces Appointment of New Acting CEO
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/05/11 -- New Guinea Gold Corporation ('New Guinea Gold' or the 'Company') (TSX VENTURE: NGG)(FRANKFURT: NG8) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Greg Heaney of Brisbane, Australia as Acting Chief Executive Officer ('CEO') effective July 4, 2011. Mr. Heaney brings over 28 years of experience in senior level financial and management roles from the mining industry and management consulting sector. He has extensive experience in finance, mergers and acquisitions, investor relations and public reporting. He has had mining industry specific experience with a major engineering consulting and contracting firm.
Mr. Ces Iewago, Chairman of the Board, commented; 'Mr. Heaney has a very strong financial background in the mining industry and we are very pleased to have him join the Company in the CEO role. With his experience and financial skills, he is bringing very valuable assets to New Guinea Gold.'
Mr. Heaney will initially assume the interim CEO role for three months during which period the Board and Mr. Heaney will review the terms of his continuation as CEO for the longer term.
About New Guinea Gold Corporation
New Guinea Gold is a premier junior explorer and miner in Papua New Guinea, with direct and indirect interests in eight gold and two porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum properties. With 90,000 metres of drilling completed, gold or copper-gold-molybdenum mineralization has been discovered on all of the properties. The Company's premier property, the Sinivit Mine, has been producing gold since August 2007 and the Company is focused on expanding the exploration program, increasing production from the mine and developing the gold, copper and tellurium resources.
For further information on this release or other NGG projects such as the Sinivit gold mine, please contact info@newguineagold.ca or access our website: www.newguineagold.ca.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
Colin McKenzie, Director
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Contacts:
New Guinea Gold Corporation
61(7)5592.2274
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info@newguineagold.ca
www.newguineagold.ca