Focus Ventures Ltd. announced the appointment of Mr. Timothy S. Oliver, PE, P.Eng. as Director of Projects. Mr. Oliver has 37 years in the international mining industry and his most recent experience is strongly oriented towards the supervision and management of mine feasibility studies and the preliminary economic assessment of projects.

His primary role with Focus will be to establish the best options for the planned process work for the Bayovar 12 phosphate project in northern Peru, and to develop the engineering, metallurgical and environmental roadmap for the project as it moves through resource calculation to prefeasibility and bankable feasibility engineering studies. In 2003 he joined M3 Engineering in Tucson, Arizona, where he managed NI 43-101 studies and served as qualified person (QP) for numerous projects in Yukon Territory, Mexico and the USA. Tim returned to independent consulting in 2013 covering assignments in the US and Brazil.