Power Metals Corp. announced the first appointments to what will be a growing advisory board comprising of expertise from individuals in all areas of vertically integrated specialty metal production and technology implementation. John F. Wightman and Dr. Julie Selway are leading work programs as the company build the Case Lake and Larder River projects which show real merit and potential to become sources of supply for the gigafactories that are being erected globally to meet the geometric rise in demand for metals that form a critical component of battery and energy storage solutions. John retired in 1994 as Principal of the Nova Scotia College of Geographic Sciences where he was an instructor and administrator over some 32 years. Since then he has been fully involved in mineral exploration as a prospector and geologist. John brings over 45 years of administrative, management and project planning experience - with a broad foundation of engineering, geology and related technology skills to his management firm - The GOLDFIELDS Group of Companies. John was a founding Director and Vice President of the Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS) and has served continuously as a Director of MANS for the past 8 years as well as Chair of the Exploration and Land Access Committee of MANS. In 2013 he was retained by the Nova Scotia Prospectors Association as its Executive Director. Dr. Julie Selway worked as a Pegmatite Geoscientist for Ontario Geological Survey for 3 years during which she travelled all over northern Ontario and visited about 90% of the pegmatites in northern Ontario including Case pegmatite, Seymour Lake pegmatites and Georgia Lake pegmatites.