Dr Air, Re GWA.v Konnigen Just saw your post about 8 hours ago. I must be Sleeping at the wheel. Must be a holiday or something LOL. Must say, you threw me for a loop when I read that. My first thoughts were, great loss for GWA and maybe they just couldn't afford his salary.
At 2AM EST I fired off that press release and a couple questions to the Ask Gowest tab on their site. About 6 hours later I got the reply from IR.
Hi _
Darren's role with Gowest remains unchanged from what it has been for the past year or so; he is still an active and important member of our technical team. He has worked with more than one company at a time for as long as I can remember.
Regards, Greg IR
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From the GWA site.
Darren M. Koningen, PEng, Technical Advisor, Project Development
Mr. Koningen is a professional engineer (metallurgy) with over 20 years of international mining experience.
Mr. Koningen is currently an independent metallurgical consultant, managing process development projects, test work and metallurgical studies on behalf of clients. Most recently, he was Vice President of Project Development, and before that, VP-Operations and VP-Engineering for Castle Gold Corp. and Aurogin Resources (prior to its merge with Morgain Minerals to form Castle Gold). Before joining Castle Gold, Mr. Koningen was employed as a Senior Process Engineer (mining) with Kvaerner Engineering. Mr. Koningen's broad international experience in metallurgy process design and operations has allowed him to make significant contributions to bringing two operating and profitable gold mines to production for Castle Gold. Mr. Koningen also serves as a director of Virgin Metals Inc.
Remember his GWA title used to be VP Project development. Just the title was changed to Technical Adviser due to how it affected his other endeavors. He has, and still remains front and center and very involved with GWA.
My personal thoughts are, that he has considerable time, and a boatload of GWA shares purchased on the open market, as you know. He has dedicated himself to the toughest years of the GWA development story. He would not miss seeing this threw and being a part of where "Gowest is about to Go". Pun intended!
Enjoy your holiday Checkmate28
AI
