Volcanic Gold Mines Inc. announced that Charles Straw and Michael Povey have been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company and as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, respectively. Simon Ridgway will continue as a Director, and Jeremy Crozier has stepped down from the Board. Charles Straw is an economic geologist with over 20 years of global experience in the mining and natural resource industries. He has held executive management positions in public and private mineral explorers, and led the successful exploration and evaluation of precious and base metals projects in Australia, South America, North America and China. He has an international network of technical and financing relationships providing both project flow and project finance. Charles is a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM), and the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM). Mike Povey is a mining engineer with over 40 years of worldwide experience in the resource sector in a wide range of commodities. He has held senior management positions in various public companies including Rio Tinto and Anglo American, with surface and underground mining operations in Africa, North America and
Australia. Over the past 20 years, Mike has held positions as Chairman, Managing Director and Technical Director of several ASX and AIM listed companies where he has led project acquisitions, exploration programs, JV negotiations and equity raisings.