Spanish Mountain Gold Ltd. announced the appointment of Peter Mah as interim Chief Executive Officer (‘CEO'). Peter will replace Larry Yau as CEO of Spanish Mountain Gold effective immediately and will work closely with the management team to ensure a smooth transition as the company advances the Spanish Mountain Gold Project (‘Project') towards the feasibility study stage. Peter currently serves as a Board member of Spanish Mountain Gold and is a professional engineer with over thirty years of Canadian and global mining experience in gold, silver, diamond and base metal projects.

He has held several senior management roles, including the President of Avanti Kitsault Mine Ltd., British Columbia, Chief Operating Officer (‘COO') of Alloycorp Mining Inc., and Group Executive of prefeasibility and feasibility projects at Newmont Mining Corp. Most recently, he was COO at McEwen Mining Inc. where he was responsible for all open pit and underground mines and projects in Canada, Mexico, Argentina and the USA. His expertise includes new mine construction and he has a proven track record of building, transitioning and operating mines.

Most notable was in 2009 when, under Peter's leadership as Mine General manager of DeBeer's Victor open pit diamond mine, the Victor Mine Team was awarded the Mining Magazine's international 'Mine of the Year' award. He's a former Director at the Mining Association of British Columbia and the Ontario Mining Association. He is currently a Director at Golden Lake Exploration Ltd. Mr. Mah holds the degrees of Bachelor of Applied Science in Mining and Mineral Process Engineering and Master of Applied Science majoring in Rock Mechanics from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.