Perpetua Resources Corp. welcomes James Norine, age 52, as Senior Vice President Projects, Tim Kahl as Senior Vice President Technical Services. Jim Norine joins the Company as Senior Vice President Projects with over 25 years of experience in project construction and engineering, delivering large-scale projects throughout the United States and internationally.
Of significant advantage to Perpetua, Mr. Norine brings a track-record of success in delivering multiple mining and processing projects. Before joining Perpetua, Mr. Norine served as Regional Director, Metals, Western (USA) at Hatch Engineering Ltd., a global multidisciplinary management, engineering and development consultancy firm. Most recently in his time at Hatch, Mr. Norine served in the role of the Project Director for delivery of the Engineering and Procurement of the Hermosa Project in Arizona under an integrated delivery method.
Previously in his career, Mr. Norine held positions at Ausenco Engineering USA, as Vice President Southwest USA, Sundt Construction as Senior Project Manager and at M3 Engineering as Project Manager. He holds a professional engineering license (PE) in the state of Idaho. Tim Kahl joins the Company as Senior Vice President Technical Services with over 30 years of experience in design, construction, commissioning, and operating complex mining and process operations.
Throughout his career in North and South America, Mr. Kahl has stewarded projects through construction, commissioning, and into operations and brings invaluable operational readiness experience with both precious and base metals operations. Mr. Kahl has served as a consultant to Perpetua for nearly two years as the operations lead and subject matter expert for processing and Pressure Oxidation. He was most recently the General Manager Operations for Peñasquito (Newmont) in Mexico, and the Process Manager for Pueblo Viejo (Barrick) in the Dominican Republic.
