Sidney Resources Corp. announced the completed acquisition and merger of Irish Metals, LLC. In addition to the completed acquisition comes the engagement of Mike Irish as the new Sidney Resources Chief Scientific Officer.

As the company CSO Mike Irish will provide guidance to the future umbrella of companies owned by Sidney Resources Corp. This advancement will also provide Sidney greater access to grant funding to continue to develop additional transformative and disruptive technologies. Mike Irish is a registered professional engineer in environmental engineering with a BS and MS in metallurgical engineering from the University of Idaho.

He has a lifelong interest in chemistry and has created many unique unit operations and analytical procedures over his 35+ years' experience in the copper, cobalt, silver and gold mining industries. This included several years at the Sunshine Silver Refinery and the Cripple Creek & Victor gold mine. Mr. Irish founded Irish Metals LLC in 2013 to support and develop new technologies and processes for mining and other industries.

Over the years, he has applied his ability to solve complex issues, improve performance and optimize economics to develop many specific technologies. Most recently Irish Metals has worked under a U.S. Dept. of Energy Critical Minerals Institute Grant to recover of Co, Ni, Mn, Cu, Fe, graphite, and Li from recycled lithium-ion batteries.

As a result of this work, he has become acquainted with many of the national labs and has collaborated with several teams. There is great potential for further grant-funded work.