NexGold Mining (TSXV: NEXG; OTCQX: NXGCF) announced Thursday the appointment of Brian Jackson to the role of Vice President, projects, effective October 14.
Jackson is a seasoned EPCM executive and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario and Nova Scotia with a broad mix of project and functional management experience across a variety of client sectors including minerals processing, oil, gas and chemicals, uranium refining and conversion, industrial, and municipal water and waste water treatment, and iron and steel.
Most recently, he was Vice President, Project Execution for North America for Ausenco and has more than 35 years of engineering and project execution experience, being involved in multiple mining project builds over his career.
Previously, he served as Project Director at Signal Gold Inc., was Project Director at Wood PLC for the execution phase of IAMGOLD’s Côté Lake Gold Project in Northern Ontario and, prior to that, for both the selection and definition phases of BHP’s Jansen Potash project in Saskatchewan.
Additional project experience includes serving as Feasibility Study Director and Project Engineering Manager for Inco’s (now Vale’s) Voisey’s Bay Mine and Mill. Jackson has also managed several EPCM offices and regional organizations, contributing extensive leadership and technical expertise to the successful delivery of complex mining projects.
Jackson replaces Clinton Swemmer, who has resigned from his position at the company. Swemmer will remain with NexGold until October 31 to ensure an orderly transition with Jackson.
“I am pleased to welcome Brian to the NexGold team. Brian has great familiarity with the Goldboro Gold Project, having worked for Signal Gold as Project Director from July 2022 to November 2023,” NexGold CEO Kevin Bullock said in a news release. “Brian’s experience in leading project construction and execution will be invaluable to NexGold as we transition to the next phase of development of the Company. We would also like to thank Clinton for his contributions to NexGold and wish him well in his future endeavours.”