Lisa Wade
Peter Shabestari
Moira Smith
Liberty Gold Corp. announced board and management appointments. Lisa Wade, an environmental engineer with more than 25 years of mining experience, was appointed to the board. Peter Shabestari, CPG, has been appointed vice president of exploration. He will also assume the role as the company’s qualified person. He joined Fronteer Gold Inc. in 2009 and was instrumental in drilling and modeling the Long Canyon gold deposit, the flagship property at the core of Fronteer’s sale to Newmont for C$2.3 billion in 2011. Mr. Shabestari has been with Liberty Gold since its spin-out from Fronteer as senior geologist and vice president, operations. Moira Smith, Ph.D., P.Geo., who has held the role of vice president, exploration and geoscience with Liberty Gold since 2015, will be transitioning into a new role as corporate technical advisor focusing on technical evaluations and business development opportunities. Liberty is advancing the Black Pine gold project in Idaho, Goldstrike gold project in Utah, and TV Tower gold-copper-silver project in Turkey.
