Golden Arrow Resources Corp (CVE:GRG) has appointed experienced mining executive Alfred Hills as a director.
He has over 35 years' of experience and from 2006 to 2013 was chief executive and a director of Kobex Minerals Inc and its predecessor company, International Barytex Resources.
Before that he was 26 years with the Placer Dome group.
Hills has also been appointed to represent the company's interests on the board of Puna Operations Inc, the joint venture with SSR Mining Inc (formerly Silver Standard Resources Inc).
Taylor Thoen has stepped down as director, it added.
In May, Golden Arrow formed a joint venture called Puna Operations Inc (POI), which combines its Chinchillas project with Silver Standard's producing Pirquitas operation in Argentina. An exploitation permit for Chinchillas is now awaited.