Mantle Mining Corporation Limited announced the appointment of experienced gold mining executive, Mr. Richard Valenta, as Executive Director of the Company to further strengthen its Board as it moves toward restarting production at its Norton and Morningstar gold projects. Mr. Valenta is a former managing director of Chesser Resources Limited with over 30 years’ experience in Australia and internationally, including the successful discovery, advancement and sale of the Kestanelik project in Turkey. Over the past 15 years, Mr. Valenta has played a key role in the discovery and advancement toward production of a number of significant gold projects and has directed exploration expenditure in excess of USD 100 million, resulting in the discovery and advancement of resources with a total in-ground value of USD 10 billion.