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Northern Vertex Welcomes Raymond Threlkeld to the Board Of Directors
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Northern Vertex Mining Corp. (TSXV: NEE) (OTC Nasdaq Intl.: NHVCF)
(the Company or Northern Vertex ) a Western U.S. gold producer with district-scale exploration projects in the Walker Lane Trend, is pleased to welcome Raymond Threlkeld to the Board of Directors.
Mr. Threlkeld is a seasoned mining professional with more than thirty years of experience in mineral exploration, mine operations and construction and executive management.
Currently, Ray is a director of Calibre Mining. Ray was recently Chairman of Newmarket Gold and became a director of Kirkland Lake Gold upon the sale of Newmarket to Kirkland for $1 Billion. In addition, Ray was a Director of Northern Empire which was sold to Coeur Mining in 2018 for US$90 million.
Glacial till sampling is a tried-and-true mineral exploration technique based on glacial erosion and the down-ice transportation of primary bedrock mineralization. This relatively new method has led to several critical gold discoveries in Canada in the past few decades.
Covered by 30 meter thick glacial sediment deposits in its namesake Rainy River greenstone belt of northern Ontario, the gold zones on this property might never have been discovered if not for modern till geochemistry.
With the help of reverse circulation (RC) drilling and till sampling techniques, gold anomalies were first detected on the property by the Ontario Geographical Survey (OGS) in the late 1980s, followed by a series of major and junior resource companies. A 20 hole RC drilling and till sampling program in 1994 at Rainy River identified the largest and strongest gold-grain anomaly encountered in till in Canada to that date and led to the discovery of the ODM/17 Zone, still today considered the largest