Prospect Ridge Resources Corp. announce the appointment of Mr. Michael Michaud and Mr. Yan Ducharme as Directors. In addition, the Company announces the resignation of Nick Luksha as a Director. Mr. Michaud, P.Geo., M.Sc. is a Professional Geologist with over 30 years of experience developing and implementing regional and mine-site exploration strategies that includes a broad range of deposit types within North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Currently, Michael is the Vice-President, Exploration for Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd.
Previously, Michael served as Chief Geologist at Iamgold Corp, Vice-President, Exploration for St Andrew Goldfields, Principal of SRK Consulting Inc. and Chief Geologist at North American Palladium. Mr. Michaud holds an honors B.Sc. from the University of Waterloo, and a M.Sc. from Lakehead University. Mr. Yan Ducharme brings over 25 years of experience to the Company in the Greenfield and Brownfield exploration projects. He started his career in SEMAFO in Guinea, Western Africa, on the Jean-Gobele exploration project which later became the Kiniero mine. In Quebec, he joined Cambior at the Sleeping Giant mine, then to the exploration office where he took care of exploration projects in the four corners of the Abitibi and in the James Bay area. Mr. Ducharme was also part of the regional exploration team at the Rosebel Mine in Suriname, South America for Cambior/Iamgold. He was Vice-President of the company when it was bought by Oban Mining, now operating as Osisko. He was regional exploration manager for Canadian Malartic until the Kirkland Lake project was acquired entirely by Agnico-Eagle, and then became exploration manager for SOQUEM. Most recently, Mr. Ducharme was exploration manager for Wesdome Gold Mine's Kiena site. Mr. Ducharme obtained a master's degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Quebec in Montreal.