Sterling Metals Corp. announced the appointment of Dr. Neil O'Brien, PhD, and Dr. Stephen J. Piercey, PhD, P.Geo., FGC, to its technical advisory board. The company has also promoted Mr. Jeremy Niemi to Senior Vice President, Exploration and Evaluation.

The appointments come at a critical time in the Company's growth with the recent expansion of the mineral footprint at Sail Pond and a concentrated effort to unlock the geological potential property wide. Dr. Neil O'Brien is a consulting economic geologist and former mining executive with a PhD from Queen's University in Geological Sciences and over three decades of industry service with expertise in base metal and polymetallic mineral systems, including silver-rich polymetallic deposits. Dr. O'Brien has international experience on six continents in all stages of mineral exploration and development of economic mineral resource projects, mining project evaluation and strategic corporate development activities.

He retired in 2018 from Lundin Mining Corporation as Senior Vice President, Exploration and New Business Development, the longest serving member of an executive team that successfully built a significant international base metal mining and mineral resource development company. Dr. O'Brien is currently President of MOAR Consulting Inc. and has experience as a director of several private and publicly traded companies, including NGEx Minerals. Dr. Stephen J. Piercey is an award-winning geologist with over 25 years of experience in academia and in the field.

He is currently the President Elect of the Society of Economic Geologists, and a Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.) in Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario. He was awarded Fellow of Geoscientists Canada for his contributions to the geoscience profession in Canada and previously won the Lindgren Medal (SEG), W.H. Gross Medal (GAC), Howard Street Robinson Medal (MDD-GAC), and Hutchison Medal (GAC). Dr. Piercey holds BSc (Hons) and MSc degrees from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada and a PhD from the University of British Columbia, Canada.

His experience includes Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences and Mineral Exploration Research Centre at Laurentia/n University, NSERC-Altius Industrial Research Chair in Mineral Deposits at Memorial University, and full-time consulting geologist and the Principal of SJPGeoConsulting. Dr. Piercey continues to consult to the mineral industry on a part-time basis and currently holds the rank of University Research Professor at Memorial University. His research, teaching, and consulting interests involve integrated field- and laboratory-based studies focused on the origin and exploration for mineral deposits, and their relationships to the tectonic and magmatic evolution of mountain belts.

He has undertaken research and consulting in most provinces and territories in Canada, in numerous countries internationally, and on the modern seafloor.