American Vanadium Corp. announced the appointment of Mr. Ron Espell to the position of Vice President, Environmental of American Vanadium effective immediately. Mr. Espell has more than 25 years of domestic and international experience in the mining industry, most recently with Barrick Gold as Corporate Environmental Director with responsibilities for new project development, permitting, and financing, environmental oversight of operating mines, and the development and implementation of Environmental Management Systems. Externally Mr. Espell defined permitting strategies and helped negotiations with regulatory agencies for permitting while developing companion internal compliance assurance programs to support the permitting, approvals and financing process. Previously Mr. Espell held roles within Barrick as Environmental Manager at Barrick's Goldstrike Mine and Environmental Director for the Barrick Australia Pacific and African Regions. Throughout his career he has worked on mining projects around the globe in all aspects including mine design for closure, mine waste management, mine water management, multidisciplinary risk assessments and environmental geology.