Fairchild Gold Corp. announced the appointment of Luís Martins as the company's new President, effective immediately. Mr. Martins replaces Robert Coltura, the former President and CEO, who has been appointed as Executive VP Admin of the company. Mr. Martins has 30 years of experience in the exploration and mining sector. He graduated from the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon (1973) and has a MsC in Economic Geology from the same faculty (1995) and also several national and international post-graduation courses. He was a former Director of the Mineral Resources Department at the Geology and Mining Institute (the Geological Survey) and a former Director of the Mines and Quarries Department at the Directorate-General of Energy and Geology (the Mining Authority). He has participated in several national and international research projects, especially in the mineral exploration, environmental geology and mining heritage fields, the majority of them with co-ordination functions and coordinated several international working groups, like the "Mineral Resources Topic Network" and the "Minerals Policy Sector" of the EuroGeoSurveys (1997- 2002) and the CYTED Ibero-American Network "Land Use and Mineral Resources" (2002-2007). He was the Portuguese representative on the "Raw Materials Supply Group" of DG Enterprise and Industry of the European Commission (June 2010- August 2012).