Century Announces the Appointment of Mr. Dwight Ball as Vice-Chair and Director of The Board of Directors of the Company
June 27 2022 - 7:00AM
Century Global Commodities Corporation
(“
Century” or the “
Company”)
(TSX: CNT) is pleased to announce that Mr. Dwight Ball has been
appointed as Director of the Company and will assume the role of
Vice-Chair of the Board.
Mr. Ball is a Canadian politician who was the
13th Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador from December 14, 2015,
to August 19, 2020, and a Member of the House of Assembly. He
represented the electoral District of Humber-Gros Morne in the
Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, and was the leader of
the Liberal Party from November 17, 2013 to August 3, 2020.
Sandy Chim, President and Chief Executive
Officer of Century commented:
“I am excited to have Mr. Ball joining us as the
Vice-Chair and Director of the Company to help oversee the Company
through a significant stage of development of Joyce Lake and other
iron ore assets in the Labrador Trough in the provinces of
Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec.
With the stature of Mr. Ball as former Premier
of Newfoundland and Labrador, he brings to the Board and Company an
important quality in enabling us to develop our projects with the
highest standard of environmental, social and governance. His
experience and leadership in business also enhances the strength
and reputation of the Company in the mining industry.
His joining the Board of the Company is a great
encouragement to us and means a lot to us in recognizing us as a
serious developer in the Canadian iron ore space having been in the
sector and region in Canada spending over $100 million for close to
15 years.
I look forward to working with Mr. Ball closely
to bring great value to our stakeholders and market in the current
cycle of global seaborne iron ore.”
ABOUT CENTURY
Century Global Commodities Corporation (TSX:CNT)
is primarily a resource exploration and development company with a
large portfolio of multi-billion tonne iron ore projects in Canada,
mostly discovered by its own exploration team. It has other
non-ferrous metals properties under exploration as well as a
well-established food distribution business (Century Food) in Hong
Kong.
The Joyce Lake DSO Iron Ore
Project
Joyce Lake, our most advanced project, is a DSO
(direct shipping ore) project in Newfoundland and Labrador, close
to the town of Schefferville, Quebec which is serviced by a rail
link directly to ocean shipping iron ore ports at Sept-Îles. The
Project completed a feasibility study in 2015 which is being
updated and is undergoing environmental assessment. Joyce Lake is
held in a special purpose vehicle, Joyce Direct Iron Inc., to be
spun out to be a separate listed company.
Century Food
Century Food is a subsidiary operation of the
Company which started a few years ago and is a value-adding
marketing and distribution business of quality food products
sourced from such regions as Europe and Australia and sold in the
Hong Kong and Macau markets.
For further information please contact:
Sandy Chim, President & CEOCentury Global Commodities
Corporation416-977-3188IR@centuryglobal.ca
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