Big Ridge Gold Corp. has increased the size of its board of directors to five. Big Ridge announced the appointment of Ken Engquist to the Big Ridge Board of Directors, joining Mike Bandrowski, Nick Tintor, Bill Williams and Rick Mazur. Ken is currently the Chief Operating Officer at First Mining. Most recently, he oversaw the development of various aspects of Tinka Resources' Ayawilca project in Peru, and the feasibility engineering study for Arizona Mining's Hermosa Zinc Project in the United States which was acquired by South32 Limited in the summer of 2018 for CAD 2.1 billion.