Candente Gold Corp. announced that Matthew Melnyk, M.Sc., CPG, has been appointed to the role of Director of Operations to oversee a new growth strategy for Candente Gold. Matthew worked in Nayarit and Sinaloa as a Mining and Exploration Geologist with VANE Minerals/Rose Petroleum to source and produce feed for their SDA plant in 2014-15. He also served as Chief Geologist for Premium Exploration in 2008 with the task of leading the evaluation and exploration of projects throughout the states of Nayarit and Jalisco while living in Nayarit, Mexico (for 5 years). More recently, from November 2015 until February 2018, Mr. Melnyk served as Manager of Project Evaluations for Agnico Eagle's Southern Business Unit with an emphasis on Mexican projects. Matthew joined Candente Gold as a Director in June 2019.