Crown Mining Corporation announced that Stephen Hughes has been appointed to the Board of Directors, effective immediately. Mr. Hughes is an economic geologist with over 20 years technical and management experience covering exploration, development and mine geology. Specializing in porphyry copper-gold, skarn and epithermal systems he has led the discovery-delineation and development of more than 2 billion tonnes of copper-gold resources in the Asia-Pacific region since 1999. Steve has worked with Freeport McMoRan at the giant Grasberg open pit and underground mines and more recently as Vice President of Exploration for Asiamet Resources where he was responsible for the development of the BKM copper, BKZ polymetallic and Beutong porphyry Cu-Au deposits. Steve is currently CEO of Carube Copper.