District Mines Ltd. announced the appointment of Brian Ast as director of the company. Mr. Ast has an extensive finance, investment banking, engineering and mining background and also worked with several early stage companies as a CFO and Board member, developing and implementing business plans and financial models. Mr. Ast's engineering experience included positions at Cominco Engineering Services Ltd. (mining) and Ballard Power. His finance and investment banking experience includes positions at RBC Capital Markets and Babcock &Brown, an Australian infrastructure investment bank. He also has extensive public private partnership (P3) experience from both the government and private sector perspective, with direct involvement in over 40 infrastructure investment projects.