Avalon Minerals Limited announced the appointment of a new CEO/Managing Director and Non-Executive director. Mr. Don Hyma's appointment as a Non-Executive Director is effective immediately, with Mr. Malcolm Norristo commence his role as CEO/Managing Director on April 1, 2014. Mr. Norris is a senior mining industry professional with extensive experience in business management, mineral exploration, development of new business opportunities and asset transactions.

His roles have covered a wide range of commodities, geographic locations and management of global portfolios of projects in both large and small organizations. He has more than 30 years of industry experience and in the last 15 years has focused primarily on corporate roles. Most recently he was CEO and Managing Director at SolGold PLC where he focused on implementing significant change, building a new team and new portfolio, along with interacting with investors and raising equity to grow the company.

Mr. Hyma is a mining industry executive with more than 25 years of progressive capital project experience in the resource sector in Canada, Chile, New Caledonia and Australia. His experience includes direct involvement in delivering numerous major projects, taking them from studies through to implementation, for several multi-national resource companies in the nickel, copper and iron ore industries.