Day: March 30, 2018

Orla Mining Ltd. is pleased to announce that Mr. David Stephens has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company. Mr. Stephens is currently Vice President Corporate Development and Marketing with Goldcorp Inc. He replaces Mr. Steven Thomas as Goldcorp’s representative on the Board of Directors of Orla, following Mr. Thomas’ resignation from the Board, as he is leaving Goldcorp to commence a new role as CFO of Torex Gold Resources Inc.

“We are excited to be an investor in Tradewind and participate in the launch of VaultChain, a cutting-edge technology that integrates physical gold into a blockchain,” said David Garofalo, President and CEO at Goldcorp. “We believe physical gold stored on a blockchain will increase the utility of the commodity and, ultimately, drive value in the price of gold. We are thrilled to be an early adopter of this 21st century platform and deposit its first bar of gold.”

“First Majestic embarked on its most aggressive exploration program in 2017 by completing 156,540 metres of diamond drilling across its Mexican assets which I’m pleased to see a healthy 11% increase in the global reserve base as well as a number of significant new discoveries at La Parrilla and Santa Elena,” stated Keith Neumeyer, President and CEO.