Midnight Sun Mining Corp. announced that Dr. Kevin Bonel has joined the Company as COO, Zambia. Dr. Bonel has over 25 years of geological experience in Sub-Saharan Africa, most recently with Barrick Gold's operations at the Lumwana Mine, located directly west of Midnight Sun's Solwezi Project.

Dr. Bonel, P. Geo is an experienced independent geologist and exploration manager. Most recently, he led the exploration team at Barrick's Lumwana Mine which completed a technical re-evaluation of the Lubwe copper deposit, bringing the deposit to the Pre-Feasibility Stage within 12 months. Dr. Bonel also made the mine site discovery of the Kamaranda copper deposit at Lumwana.

Prior to his work with Barrick, he managed exploration of Freeport McMoRan's copper exploration project in Kabompo, Zambia. He was a member of the Kisanfu copper-cobalt pre-feasibility and feasibility leadership team in the DRC, and he oversaw the reinterpretation of the Munali nickel deposit in Zambia, which is now in production. He is credited with the discovery of the Mpemba Hill Ni-Cu-PGE deposit in Malawi, and the discovery of a new copper deposit near Mpongwe, Zambia.