Avanti Gold Corporation has a new CEO in Colin Porter, an expert in gold mineralization systems with a particular focus in Africa.
Porter has over 25 years of experience in exploration, project management and applied structural geology across the continent, focusing largely on Archaean, Proterozoic and Pan-African orogenic deposits.
Prior to joining Avanti, Porter served as a structural geologist for Anglogold Ashanti’s Africa Region, where he was responsible for planning and implementation of deposit scale and brownfields exploration at several of Africa's largest mines.
He also managed all exploration activities at the Zani-Kodo gold project in NE DR Congo, from instigation to definition of a three-million-ounce resource.
Porter holds a BSc (Hons) in geology from Queen's University Belfast, a PhD in geology from the University of Southampton, and is a member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
The CEO appointment went into effect on May 1.
The appointment comes as the company works on a Tier-1 gold opportunity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), located in the Fizi territory of South Kivu province.
The Misisi gold project has a contained inferred mineral resource of three million ounces of gold.
The project is comprised of three contiguous leases covering 133 square kilometres of prospective exploration ground along the 55-kilometre-long Kibara Gold Belt.
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