Crosshair Exploration & Mining Corp. has appointed Jean G. Cormier to its advisory board. Mr. Cormier will take an active role in identifying methods and strategies designed to increase awareness and exposure for Crosshair and its property holdings in Newfoundland and China.
Until recently, Mr. Cormier was president of Cormier Communicators Inc., which he founded in 1986. Mr. Cormier has served in several senior positions such as senior vice-president of corporate affairs with British Columbia Resources Investment Corporation (now Westar Group); president of the CN Tower and Hotel Division of Canadian National; vice-president, public affairs of Canadian National and director of communications and public affairs of Dofasco Inc.
Mr. Cormier has served as chairman of the International Association of Business Communicators in the United States and received the association's IABC Fellow award. This award is given by the association for outstanding achievement in the field of public relations and contributions to the advancement of the profession and work on behalf of the association. Mr. Cormier is an accredited member of the Canadian Public Relations Society.
Mr. Cormier has held the positions of president of the Canadian Club of Vancouver, founding chairman of the Jack Webster Foundation and past chairman of the annual Montebello Conference, a conference of Canada's leading private and public sector communicators. He is a member of the Vancouver Club, past president of the Marine Drive Golf Club and president of the Endocrine Research Society.
Mark Morabito, president of the company, states that: "Crosshair is extremely pleased to welcome aboard a gentleman with such an extensive and distinguished background. Jean's knowledge and experience will strengthen the company and provide invaluable guidance for our corporate-communications efforts as the company and its key mineral properties graduate to an advanced stage in 2004-2005. Jean Cormier joins Derek Wilton, PhD, PGeo, a professor in the department of earth sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and maritime business titan, Chris Collingwood, on the advisory board."
The company also reports the commencement of a backhoe trenching program on its Glenwood Break property in central Newfoundland. The trenching area is highlighted by subcropping and outcropping brecciated, silicified sedimentary rocks containing polyphase-quartz veining with disseminated pyrite and arsenopyrite that have returned up to 2.9 grams per tonne gold from random grab samples.
Several other targets on this property identified from the airborne survey are also being advanced to the trenching stage including an area of high gold-grain counts in till (up to 60 grains of gold in a 10-kilogram sample) where newly exposed quartz veins will be trenched.
Crosshair has commenced a comprehensive exploration program on all of its Newfoundland projects including major drilling and trenching programs that will continue for the remainder of 2004.