VanGold Mining Corp. announced that Gerardo Dorado Cantu has been appointed President of the Guanajuato chapter of The College of Mining Engineers; The company also hires Gabriela Ponce as Project Geologist. The company like to acknowledge and congratulate Country Manager Gerardo Dorado Cantu for having been appointed President of the Guanajuato chapter of The College of Mining Engineers, Metallurgists and Geologists of Mexico (El Colegio de Ingenieros de Minas, Metalurgistas y Geólogos de México A.C.), or CIMMGM. The association is over 70 years old with over 100 active members. Mr. Dorado Cantu is a mining engineer with over 40 years' experience working on numerous projects throughout Mexico. He, along with his son, VanGold director Hernan Dorado Smith ­ who is also a mining engineer ­ originally vended the El Pinguico project to VanGold. Gerardo's hard work, persistence, and dedication are responsible in large measure for VanGold's recent ability to advance the El Pinguico project as swiftly as they have. The Company reported that it has hired Gabriela Ponce as Project Geologist for the El Pinguico Project. After graduating from the University of Guanajuato in 2007, Ms. Ponce immediately established a career working in the Guanajuato area, by being employed underground at Endeavour Silver Corporation's El Cubo mine complex, located just 5km from El Pinguico, from 2009 until 2019. Gabriela worked both within El Cubo's underground mine exploration and exploitation departments, often managing a team of up to twenty employees. Within the exploration department her duties routinely consisted of supervising all aspects of underground drilling including targeting and positioning of drill rigs, supervising the cutting and logging of core samples, and identifying alteration, rock types, mineralogy and geotechnical features. Her tasks also included QA-QC control, mapping and sampling supervision, creating and reviewing cross sections and computer modeling.