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Personal news [Mining Engineering](Mining Engineering Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) H Royal Gold chairman and former chief executive officer (CEO) STANLEY DEMPSEY (SME) has retired after 31 years of leadership on Royal Gold's board of directors. He is succeeded as ' chairman by WILLIAM HAYES, a J Royal Gold lead independent director, ^k a I Dempsey served as executive chairman A *. ^*jl of Royal Gold's board and CEO of the DEMPSEY company from 1998 to 2006. Before Royal Gold, Dempsey was with Amax where he held various engineering, legal, operating and executive positions, including chairman of Amax Australia, vice president of Amax, senior vice president of Climax Molybdenum, vice president of Amax Exploration, director of environmental affairs and division attorney-western operations. Hayes has served on the Royal Gold board of directors since 2008. In addition to his expanded role as chairman of the board, he will continue to serve as chair of Royal Gold's Audit and Finance Committee. Hayes previously served in various management positions with Placer Dome for 18 years. Royal Gold also elected CHRIS M.T. THOMPSON as a new, independent director. Duluth Metals announced new management and technical team appointments for the Twin Metals Minnesota (TMM) joint venture. It includes two new members from Antofagasta, ANDRONICO LUKSIC and ALEJANDRO RIVERA, and three existing members from Duluth, KELLY J. OSBORNE (SME), CHRISTOPHER DUNDAS and JAMES JACKSON, BILL HAYES, RAMON JARA and GARY LOVING (SME) have resigned as directors. Dundas has been appointed as chairman of TMM. JUAN ANDRES MOREL, CEO of TMM, also resigned. Osborne, current president and CEO of Duluth Metals, will assume the role of CEO of TMM. The new Technical Committee appointees include VERN BAKER, previously president of Duluth Metals, ANDREW HARA and PHILLIP LARSON (SME) from Duluth Metals, as well as MURRAY CANFIELD and FRANCISCO WALTHER from Antofagasta. Baker has been appointed chairman of the Technical Committee. MWH Global has appointed MATTHEW SETTY to principal environmental scientist. He has nearly 18 years of international experience in the hard rock mining sector, but he will focus primarily on assisting clients in the western United States. Setty is a specialist in the environmental and water management of hard rock mining, including water treatment systems, environmental compliance and permitting. Most recently, he was senior environmental project manager/client manager at CH2M Hill. Cliffs Natural Resources has appointed LOURENCO GONCALVES to the positions of chairman, president and chief executive officer. He replaces JIM KIRSCH, who served as chairman since July 2013, and GARY HALVERSON, who served as CEO since February 2014. Previously, Goncalves served as chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Metals USA Holdings Corp. Barrick Gold announced that president and chief executive officer JAMIE SOKALSKY has resigned. KELVIN DUSHNISKY, senior executive vice president responsible for corporate and government affairs and chairman of African Barrick Gold pic, and JIM GOWANS, executive vice president and chief operating officer, were appointed co-presidents. * (c) 2014 Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc. |