BeMetals Corp. announced that Mr. Derek Iwanaka has joined the Company's senior management team as Vice-President of Investor Relations and Corporate Development. Mr. Iwanaka will be responsible for overseeing the Company's ongoing and future marketing initiatives and will be responsible for all corporate development activities including the identification of mineral projects. Mr. Iwanaka brings a wealth of investor relations experience and has been instrumental in over 20 mergers, acquisitions and property divestures over his 15 year career in the mining industry. Derek started in his career in investor relations with intermediate gold producer, Bema Gold Corporation in 2002 and has since progressively advanced to more senior roles with various mineral producing companies. He was most recently the Vice-President of Investor Relations at First Mining Gold Corp. where he was part of the original executive management team that acquired 11 mineral projects over the course of that Company's first two years.