Vancouver, BC, Canada - November 5, 2012, Vancouver, BC, Canada - Prophecy Coal Corp., a thermal coal mining company, announces the appointment of Jeffrey Mason as chief financial officer.
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Mr. Mason is a Chartered Accountant with more than twenty years’ experience in financial reporting and has worked with various medium and large publicly-traded mining companies in the area of accounting, corporate finance and regulatory reporting
Mr. Mason spent fifteen years with Hunter Dickinson Inc. (HDI), as Corporate Secretary, Chief Financial Officer and Director for numerous public mining companies. Mr. Mason also was the CFO for Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. which in July 2007, established a 50:50 partnership with Anglo American plc to engineer, permit, construct and operate a modern, long-life mine at Pebble.
Prior to HDI, Mr. Mason was with Homestake Mining Group for six years, as Controller responsible for financial reporting and operational accounting for the Golden Bear gold mine construction and operations, and the Eskay Creek Gold/Silver mine construction. Formerly an Independent Business Advisor, Mr. Mason remains an active Director of a number of publicly-traded mining and exploration companies, including as a member of Audit and Compensation Committees.
Mr. Mason holds a B.Com. from the University of British Columbia (1980) and obtained his Chartered Accountant designation from the British Colombian Institute of Chartered Accountants (1982), while at the international accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche. He received a Director (ICD.D) designation in 2008, from the Institute of Corporate Directors at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.
The Company appoints Samir Devendra Patel as Corporate Secretary.
Mr. Patel has extensive legal experience in the area of securities and corporate law, particularly in relation to M&A transactions, continuous disclosure requirements, and equity and debt financings. Prior to joining Prophecy, Mr. Patel was with the Securities & Capital Markets Group in the Vancouver office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, a full-service, national law firm. His practice involved advising clients in a variety of sectors with respect to securities, corporate and commercial law matters, including public company financing transactions, mergers & acquisitions and restructuring transactions.
Mr. Patel graduated from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) in 2005, and completed his National Accreditation requirements at the University of Victoria in 2008. He was admitted to the British Columbia Bar in 2009. ■