Mount Burgess Mining announced the appointment of Mr. Chris Campbell Hicks as a Non Executive Director of the Company with immediate effect. Chris has significant experience in developing gold and base metal projects in Australia, progressing them from greenfields through to successful production. He also has significant experience in working in more than twelve overseas countries, including Ghana, RSA, PNG, Chile, Guinea, Fiji, Indonesia, Turkey, Kazakhstan.

This included five years with Barrick Gold as Manager Metallurgy, based in Moscow, Siberia and Canada. In 2005, Chris spent some six months in Botswana overseeing the construction, commissioning and training for the operation of the Tati nickel, copper, cobalt plant.