Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. announced it has appointed Mr. Vincent Mora as the Company's Project Development Manager for the Steenkampskraal Rare Earths operation in South Africa. 

He will be located at site. Mr. Mora's primary responsibility is to expeditiously plan, budget, coordinate, and direct activities concerned with the development of the feasibility study, detailed engineering, construction, and operation of the former-producing Steenkampskraal Mine. Additionally,

Mr. Mora will use his high degree of knowledge and expertise of mineral processing to focus on the extraction and purification of the Rare Earth elements from the site. He will also have overall responsibility for GWMG’s planned exploration program at Steenkampskraal and for bringing the historic resource estimate into compliance with NI 43-101 technical reporting requirements.

Mr. Mora brings a wealth of mining development expertise to the Steenkampskraal project and to GWMG. He holds a Masters degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Universidad de santiago de Chile, is a member of the South African Coal Processing Society and is fluent in five languages.

His background as a process engineer includes significant experience in the design, management and execution of large projects in the minerals processing sector. He has worked with companies such as Bateman Engineering, Anglo American, Mintek and other global mining and engineering firms.

Jim Engdahl, President and Chief Executive Officer of GWMG said, "The addition of Vincent Mora to our management team is an important step forward as we continue the development of our Company's top priority, the Steenkampskraal operation. Because Mr. Mora will direct, monitor and supervise this project, day in and day out at site, we are very confident our Company will be able to proceed according to the fast track schedule GWMG recently announced. Mr. Mora’s proven management abilities will ensure GWMG executes the Steenkampskraal project on schedule and on budget. Head office support for Mr. Mora will be handled by Mr. Richard Hogan, GWMG Vice President Operations, and we thank Richard for moving the project forward on a day to day basis up to this point."

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