ready to be exercised. Might be time for Matawa First Nations to engage
Probe in some lenghty consultation and accommodation talks using the
Platinex statement of claim.
Market Wire
November 15, 2007 Thursday 9:19 AM GMT
Probe Mines Announces Appointment of Dr. John B. Gammon to the Board of
Directors
DATELINE: TORONTO, ONTARIO; Nov 15, 2007
(TSX VENTURE: PRB) ("Probe") are pleased to announce that Dr. John B.
Gammon, former Assistant Deputy Minister of Mines for Ontario, has been
elected to the Board of directors, subject to regulatory approval. In
addition to Dr. Gammon, the Board of directors now consists of Patrick
Reid, Chairman, Harry Hodge and David Palmer.
The Company welcomes Dr. John B. Gammon as a source of both technical
and corporate advice. John holds a B.Sc. (honours) degree in Geology
from the University of Leicester, UK, and a Ph.D in Geology from Durham
University, UK. After graduation, John conducted postdoctoral research
at the Universities of California and Princeton as the recipient of a
Senior Visiting Fulbright Fellowship. For the next twenty years he was
employed in successively senior positions in mineral exploration
management with among other companies, Falconbridge. John spent
seventeen years with the Government of Ontario, Canada, in the Ministry
of Northern Development and Mines, the first two as Director, Mineral
Development and Lands Branch and then as Assistant Deputy Minister,
Mines and Mineral Division. He was senior advisor on mining issues to
five successive governments. After retiring from government in 2005,
John established the "Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation" at
Laurentian University. He is also the Founder of the World Mines
Ministries Forums, Toronto. He currently sits on the Boards of Gold
Summit Mines, Sherwood Copper Corporation, Ascendant Copper Corporation
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and Strait Gold Corporation. In appreciation for services to mining and
Northern Ontario, John was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws from
Laurentian University in 2006.
On November 15, 2007, Dr. Gammon was granted options to acquire up to
200,000 common shares of the Corporation exercisable at a price of
$0.74 per share for a five-year term. Directors and officers are not
paid any salaries or fees for acting as such. The options were granted
pursuant to a stock option plan approved by shareholders on October 21,
2002.
National Post's Financial Post & FP Investing (Canada)
January 15, 2008 Tuesday
National Edition
INTERESTING FIND AT MCFAULD'S LAKE
The whole mining world got excited last year when an old junior called
Noront Resources Ltd. made an amazing high-grade nickel-copper
discovery at the McFauld's Lake camp in Northern Ontario. A bunch of
other juniors started staking out all the land they could find, and
McFauld's looked like it could be the next big Canadian area play. But
the stocks have lagged lately as investors wait to see how big the
discovery actually is and whether any of the other juniors finds
something significant.
One of those juniors is Probe Mines Ltd., and the Toronto-based company
got investors excited yesterday when it said a soil sampling program at
McFauld's identified "significant" anomalies in nickel, copper, cobalt,
and silver. The samples came from a 350-metre space about one kilometre
northwest of Noront's big find.
Probe shares shot up 40% in morning trading, and the company noted the
property will be a "focus for exploration" in 2008.
-- Peter Koven
