MOK Moss Lake Gold Mines Ltd

TORONTO, June 22, 2011 /CNW/ -- TORONTO, June 22, 2011 /CNW/ - Following its Annual General and Special Meeting and Board of Directors meeting on June 21, 2011, Moss Lake Gold Mines Ltd. (MOK: TSX-V) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Brian Ma, CA, as Secretary-Treasurer of the Company. Mr. George Mannard, President, said "On behalf of the Board, I welcome Brian's input, expertise and competence.  With financing in hand, we are accelerating evaluation of the Moss Lake project with the goal of providing shareholders with a clear estimate of the costs and economic conditions required to justify mine development on their property." Brian Ma is currently Corporate Controller of the parent company, Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd.  He is a Chartered Accountant and holds an MAcc in accounting from the University of Waterloo. Mr. Ma replaces Donald Orr, CA, who remains Secretary-Treasurer and CFO of Wesdome.  Mr. Orr thus remains available to smooth and facilitate the succession. In other business, the Board approved the issuance of 600,000 stock options, exercisable at $0.33 per share over five years, to directors and officers of Moss Lake under the terms of the Company's Stock Option Plan. Moss Lake Gold Mines Ltd. is a 57.6% owned subsidiary of Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. (WDO-TSX).  It owns a 100% interest in the Moss Lake Gold deposit located 100 km west of Thunder Bay, Ontario.  The Company is evaluating development options for the project and undertaking studies designed to support a Preliminary Economic Assessment and Pre-Feasibility level study. Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. This news release includes certain forward-looking statements concerning the future performance of Moss Lake's business, operations and financial performance and condition, as well as management's objectives, strategies, beliefs and intentions.  Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning the intention of Wesdome to convert the Note..  Forward-looking statements are frequently identified by such words as "may", "will", "plan", "expect", "anticipate", "estimate", "intend" and similar words referring to future events and results. Forward-looking statements are based on the current opinions and expectations of management. All forward-looking information is inherently uncertain and subject to a variety of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, including the speculative nature of mineral exploration and development, fluctuating commodity prices, competitive risks and the availability of financing, as described in more detail in recent securities filings available at www.sedar.com. Actual events or results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements and Moss Lake cautions against placing undue reliance thereon.  Moss Lake and its management assume no obligation to revise or update these forward looking statements. To view this news release in HTML formatting, please use the following URL: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2011/22/c8396.html p align="justify" iplease visit /iia href="http://www.mosslakegold.com" font-style="italic"www.mosslakegold.com/a/ii or contact:/i /p p align="justify" George Mannard, P.Geo.br/ President /p p 8 King St. East, Suite 1305br/ Toronto, ON, M5C-1B5br/ Toll Free: 1-866-4-WDO-TSXbr/ Phone: 416-360-3743, Fax: 416-360-7620br/ Email: a href="mailto:info@mosslakegold.com"info@mosslakegold.com/a, Website: a href="http://www.mosslakegold.com" cr="true"www.mosslakegold.com/a /p

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