West Red Lake Gold Strengthens Mine Operations Team With Appointment of Hayley Halsall-Whitney as Vice President of Operations By Investing.com

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. (West Red Lake Gold or Company) (TSXV: WRLG) (OTCQB: WRLGF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Hayley Halsall-Whitney as Vice President of Operations.

Ms. Halsall-Whitney is a professional engineer with over 20 years of experience managing operational excellence in Canadian mining operations. Most recently, she held the position of General Manager at Wesdome Gold Mines’ Eagle River Mine (2020-2024), where she rapidly led the operation to record production in 2021 through intensive and ongoing attention to all aspects of the Eagle River mine complex, including health and safety. , environment and tailings, maintenance, electrical, human resources, technical services (geology and mining) and finance departments, both on the underground and on the Misha open pit mine and mill jobs. In her 3.5-year tenure, she also delivered the first block model and Life of Mine update since the mine went live, increasing reserves and resource estimates, reducing cash costs, implementing disciplined approaches to capital deployment, supply chain management and contract negotiations, transitioning teams for mining and maintenance from contractors to in-house, launched major safety initiatives and introduced a strong equality and diversity policy.

Prior to her role as General Manager at Eagle River, Ms. Halsall-Whitney was the Eagle River Plant Manager, a role she joined from similar positions at North American Palladium as Mill Supervisor and at Goldcorp’s Porcupine Mine as Processing Supervisor on the Century Project. To begin her mining career, Ms. Halsall-Whitney worked as a Process Control Project Engineer with XPS Consulting (Xstrata) before moving to Glencore (OTC:)’s Sudbury Integrated Operations, where she progressed throughout the organization in senior engineering roles. positions from the smelter to the mill shop. As the first metals accounting engineer in their finance department, she led the development and implementation of an integrated metals accounting solution that connects mine, mill and smelter measurement systems and operations straight to SAP’s financial and custom data entry systems. In addition, Ms. Halsall-Whitney is the author of several publications in the area of ​​process control and metals accounting.

“I am delighted to welcome Hayley Halsall-Whitney to West Red Lake Gold and the Madsen Mine,” said Shane Williams, President and CEO. With bulk sample mining underway, two-thirds of planned operations staff in place, including strong mine management, bulk sample processing planned for March and first production planned for mid-year, the Madsen mine is at a point where an experienced leader is fully focused on optimizing all aspects underground mining are key to smooth start-up and reliable, optimized operations. Such leaders are rare in today’s mining industry, so we are delighted that Hayley saw the opportunity we see at Madsen Mine and decided to join our team.

Ms. Halsall-Whitney has an impressive educational resume, beginning with a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from Concordia University and a BASc followed by an MSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Ottawa. She then completed an EMBA at the Kellogg-Schulich School of Management, and recently completed the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton Business School. Along the way, she also completed project management and advanced project management certifications.

ABOUT WEST RED LAKE GOLD MINES

West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. is a publicly traded mineral exploration company focused on the advancement and development of its flagship Madsen gold mine and associated 47 km2 land package in the Red Lake District of Ontario. The highly productive Red Lake Gold District in northwestern Ontario, Canada, has yielded more than 30 million ounces of gold from high-grade zones and contains some of the world’s richest gold deposits. WRLG also holds the wholly owned Rowan Property in Red Lake, with an expansive property position covering 31 km2 including three historically producing gold mines “ Rowan, Mount Jamie and Red Summit.

ON BEHALF OF WEST RED LAKE GOLD MINES LTD.
Shane Williams
Shane Williams
President and Chief Executive Officer

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Gwen Preston
Vice President for Communications
Phone: (604) 609-6132
Email: investors@wrlgold.com or visit the Company’s website at https://www.westredlakegold.com

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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT AND FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION

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Forward-looking information involves numerous risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially from those suggested in any forward-looking information. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, market volatility; the state of the financial markets for the Company’s securities; fluctuations in commodity prices; the timing and results of cleanup and recovery at the Madsen mine; and changes in the Company’s business plans. Forward-looking information is based on a number of key expectations and assumptions, including, without limitation, that the Company will continue to pursue its stated business objectives and its ability to raise additional capital to continue. Although the Company’s management has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as expected, estimated or planned. There can be no assurance that such forward-looking information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events may differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking information. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Readers are cautioned that reliance on such information may not be appropriate for other purposes. Additional information about risks and uncertainties is contained in the Company’s management’s discussion and analysis for the year ended November 30, 2023 and the Company’s annual information form for the year ended November 30, 2023, copies of which are available on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus .ca.

The forward-looking information contained herein is expressly qualified in its entirety by this cautionary statement. Forward-looking information reflects management’s current beliefs and is based on information currently available to the Company. Forward-looking information is made as of the date of this press release and the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise such information to reflect new events or circumstances, except as required by applicable law.

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Source: West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd.