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Kavango Resources strengthens exploration team with new COO

Published: 07:35 05 Nov 2021 GMT

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Kavango Resources PLC (LSE:KAV, OTC:KVGOF) named Brett Grist as chief operating officer. He will take up the position and join the Kavango board on 7 February 2022.

In a twenty-year plus career, Grist, a geologist, has worked on base metals and gold projects across Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Australia and most recently in the UK, where he has led the definition of a substantial high-grade metal resource for Strategic Minerals PLC (AIM:SML)'s Redmoor tin-tungsten-copper project.

Grist also co-chairs the Critical Minerals Association's UK mining working group.

David Smith, Kavango Resources’ chairman said:  "We are very happy to welcome Brett, an experienced exploration executive, to Kavango.

"His extensive background in advancing exploration programs and delivering projects adds important technical skills to Kavango's senior management."

Grist added: “Botswana is a highly attractive mining investment destination, and the combination of Kavango's team and an exciting exploration holding of significant scale, focussed on metals that are in increasing demand, means that the company is well placed to deliver exploration success.”

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