Northern Graphite Corporation announced the appointment of Ms. Samantha Espley to its Board of Directors. A recipient of numerous professional awards across her career, including the Governor General's Gold Medal, Mining Trailblazer Award, Ms. Espley is a visionary business executive with 34 years of mining industry experience in corporate strategy, operations, and capital projects, and a leader in health and safety, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability. She is an independent board member of Paramount Gold Nevada Corp., a board member and Industry Chair with the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and past President of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum.

She is a Senior Advisor at Stantec and author of The Whole Mine approach as a core platform for engineering work and guiding safe, sustainable, and engaging mining practises. She is a licensed professional engineer with degrees from the University of Toronto and Laurentian University.