Avocet Mining plc announced that David Cather has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer with immediate effect. David will be based in London and report directly to the Chief Executive Officer. David is an experienced mining engineer and brings over 30 years of mining experience to Avocet, most recently as the Chief Operating Officer with European Goldfields. David's career has included senior roles at Anglo American where he was Technical Director for its Industrial Minerals Division, Redland Aggregates Ltd. (now Lafarge SA) and De Beers, and spent five years consulting to the industry on a variety of early stage projects principally for gold, copper and base metal projects in DRC, Sierra Leone, Nicaragua, Philippines and Columbia.