Source: Nemaska Lithium
Nemaska Lithium Inc. ("Nemaska Lithium" or the "Corporation") (TSX:NMX)(OTCQX:NMKEF)
announces the hiring of Mr. François Godin as Vice President
Operations. Mr. Godin will be responsible for all operations, both at
the Whabouchi mine and at the Shawinigan plant. He will report directly
to Mr. Guy Bourassa, President and CEO of Nemaska Lithium. Mr. Godin
will officially join Nemaska Lithium and assume his role and
responsibilities on August 9, 2016. His office will be located at the
Corporation's Shawinigan Hydromet plant.
Prior to joining Nemaska Lithium, Mr. Godin worked 28 years
in progressively senior operations and process optimization roles for
the Iron & Titanium division of the multinational mining company Rio
Tinto. During the final years of his tenure there, he built a mining
organization, started and operated a billion dollar mining project from
scratch in Madagascar, employing 640 people with an annual operating
budget of $150M. His expertise spans the life of a mining project from
start up, to operations, to chemical and mining process optimization. In
addition, he brings experience in chemical processing from minerals
using innovative new technologies. Mr. Godin holds a bachelor's degree
in metallurgical engineering from Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal.
"I am delighted to add François to our senior management
team," commented Guy Bourassa President and CEO of Nemaska Lithium. "He
is an experienced and well-rounded professional that brings best
practices expertise as well as start-up experience. This is a unique
combination of skill sets that perfectly suits our current stage of
development. He has built projects from the ground up and run them
efficiently to consistently deliver results. I am excited to work with
him as we move into the next phase of our Company's development. We have
built a strong technical team that has led the technology development
and now with the addition of François we are significantly de-risking
our project execution and operation."
About Nemaska Lithium
Nemaska Lithium intends to become a lithium hydroxide and
lithium carbonate supplier to the emerging lithium battery market that
is largely driven by electric vehicles, cell phones, tablets and other
consumer products. The Corporation is developing in Quebec one of the
most important spodumene lithium hard rock deposit in the world, both in
volume and grade. The spodumene concentrate produced at Nemaska
Lithium's Whabouchi mine will be shipped to the Corporation's lithium
compounds processing plant to be built in Shawinigan, Quebec. This plant
will transform spodumene concentrate into high purity lithium hydroxide
and carbonate using the proprietary methods developed by the
Corporation, and for which patent applications have been filed.
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