Fokus Mining Corporation has appointed Steve Duchesne to its board of directors, effective immediately. Mr. Duchesne played in the National Hockey League from 1985 until 2002. He was a three time NHL All Star and a member of the Stanley Cup champion team in the last season of his career. After playing in the NHL, he stayed involved in hockey: he was president and co-owner of the Allen Americans Hockey Club in the ECHL in Allen, Texas for five years and is co-founder of a hockey school in his home town of Sept-Iles, Quebec that has hosted 200 kids every year for the last 35 years. Thibaut Segeral has resigned as a director of Fokus, effective immediately.