VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 28,
2023 /CNW/ - FPX Nickel Corp. (TSXV: FPX) (OTCQB:
FPOCF) ("FPX" or the "Company") is pleased to
announce the appointment of Tim
Bekhuys as the Company's Senior Vice President,
Sustainability & External Relations. Mr. Bekhuys, formerly
Vice President of Environment, Health, Safety & Sustainability
with SSR Mining, has over 40 years of experience in mining, focused
on environment, health and safety, sustainability, and external
relations, including work on mergers and acquisitions, exploration,
project development, operations and closure of mines across five
continents. He will lead FPX's Environment, Engagement and
Sustainability team, leveraging his extensive experience in
community engagement, environmental assessment and permitting
activities for the continued advancement of FPX's Baptiste Nickel
Project ("Baptiste") in central British Columbia.
"We are very fortunate to welcome an individual with Tim's
extensive mining industry background and regional experience to the
FPX team," commented Martin Turenne,
FPX Nickel's President & CEO. "Tim has deep experience with the
British Columbia regulatory
framework, in particular working closely with Indigenous right
holders and local communities. He has been responsible for
negotiating and delivering Impact Benefit Agreements, provincial
and federal environment assessments and permitting for open-pit
mines in British Columbia,
including the Mt. Milligan copper-gold mine and the Blackwater
gold mine, both located within 200 km of the Baptiste project. Tim
will play an important leadership role for FPX as we work
collaboratively with the provincial and federal governments and
with Indigenous leadership to advance Baptiste as a modern mining
project, focused on the goals of safeguarding the well-being of
people, protecting the environment, and preserving Indigenous
culture."
Mr. Bekhuys was most recently the Vice President, Environment,
Health, Safety & Sustainability for SSR Mining, where he led
all aspects of SSR's EHSS initiatives, including sustainability
reporting, environment assessment and permitting activities. Prior
to joining SSR, Mr. Bekhuys was the Director, Environment
& Sustainability for New Gold, where he successfully led the
government, permitting, aboriginal, and community relations
programs for the Blackwater project in central B.C., which has
received its main permits and is currently in the construction
phase. Earlier in his career, he occupied senior roles providing
environmental and community relations advisory services to mining
industry clients for AMEC and TetraTech. Mr. Bekhuys is a
former member of the boards of directors of the Association for
Mineral Exploration British Columbia ("AME"), the Mining
Assocation of British Columbia
("MABC"), and the Mining Association of Canada ("MAC"). He is a biologist and
holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Victoria.
FPX has granted 600,000 stock options to Mr. Bekhuys. The stock
options have an exercise price of $0.40 per share and will expire on August 28, 2028.
About the Decar Nickel
District
The Company's Decar Nickel District represents a large-scale
greenfield discovery of nickel mineralization in the form of a
naturally occurring nickel-iron alloy called awaruite (Ni3Fe)
hosted in an ultramafic/ophiolite complex. FPX's mineral claims
cover an area of 245 km2 west of the Middle River and
north of Trembleur Lake, in central British Columbia. Awaruite mineralization has
been identified in several target areas within the ophiolite
complex including the Baptiste Deposit and the Van Target, as
confirmed by drilling, petrographic examination, electron probe
analyses and outcrop sampling. Since 2010, approximately US
$30 million has been spent on the
exploration and development of Decar.
Of the four targets in the Decar Nickel District, the Baptiste
Deposit has been the focus of increasing resource definition (a
total of 99 holes and 33,700 m of
drilling completed), as well as environmental and engineering
studies to evaluate its potential as a bulk-tonnage open pit mining
project. The Baptiste Deposit is located within the Baptiste Creek
watershed, on the traditional and unceded territories of
Tl'azt'en Nation and Binche Whut'en, and within several Tl'azt'enne
and Binche Whut'enne keyohs. FPX has conducted mineral exploration
activities to date subject to the conditions of agreements with
First Nations and keyoh holders.
About FPX Nickel Corp.
FPX Nickel Corp. is focused on the exploration and development
of the Decar Nickel District, located in central British Columbia, and other occurrences of the
same unique style of naturally occurring nickel-iron alloy
mineralization known as awaruite.
On behalf of FPX Nickel Corp.
"Martin Turenne"
Martin Turenne, President, CEO
and Director
Forward-Looking
Statements
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herein is considered "forward-looking information" within the
meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. These statements
address future events and conditions and so involve inherent risks
and uncertainties, as disclosed in the Company's periodic filings
with Canadian securities regulators. Actual results could differ
from those currently projected. The Company does not assume the
obligation to update any forward-looking statement.
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SOURCE FPX Nickel Corp.