Nicola Mining hires Garcia as senior geologist
2025-06-04 17:58 ET – News Release
Mr. Peter Espig reports
NICOLA MINING HIRES VICENTE GARCIA AS SENIOR GEOLOGIST
Nicola Mining Inc. has hired Vicente Garcia as senior geologist. His experience is expected to deepen the company’s copper porphyry expertise, as it commences an aggressive 2025 exploration program.
Mr. Garcia has over seven years of exploration experience across porphyry Cu-Mo (copper and molybdenum), IOCG (iron ore, copper and gold), stratabound-copper, epithermal gold-silver and lithium-rich brine systems. He holds a BSc in geology from the University of Concepcion in Chile. After graduating, he worked for several years with Kura Minerals, an exploration consulting company, where he was involved in programs targeting a variety of commodities. He later joined Quiborax, where he focused on the exploration of Ulexite in salar environments. In 2020, he founded Mayal Exploration, a consulting company through which he provided geological services, including drill core relogging, surface mapping and 3-D geological modelling for various mining clients in Chile. In 2022, Mr. Garcia relocated to Canada and joined Dahrouge Geological Consulting, contributing to Ni-Cu (nickel and copper) sulphide and lithium pegmatite exploration projects in the Timmins region of Ontario and the James Bay area of Quebec. Before joining Nicola Mining, he worked at Anglo American, where he supported international exploration programs targeting Cu-Mo porphyry systems in Arizona and orthomagmatic Ni-Cu-PGE (nickel, copper and platinum group element) systems in Greenland. Mr. Garcia’s experience and technical knowledge is a valuable addition to Nicola’s exploration team.
Peter Espig, chief executive officer of Nicola Mining, commented: “Nicola continues to aggressively execute on both operations and exploration. Recently, the company has garnered significant media relating to gold and silver production; however, we truly believe in the copper exploration upside of our New Craigmont project. In addition, Vincente and Will Whitty, our VP of exploration, will look at conducting exploration on the backside of our fully permitted Treasure Mountain silver mine. We look forward to providing a news explanation on our 2025 exploration plan at the New Craigmont project in the near future.”
Qualified person
William Whitty, PGeo, the company’s vice-president of exploration, is the qualified person, as defined by National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, who supervised the preparation of, has reviewed and has also approved the technical information in this news release.
About Nicola Mining Inc.
Nicola Mining is a junior mining company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange and Frankfurt Stock Exchange that maintains a 100-per-cent-owned mill and tailings facility, located near Merritt, B.C. It has signed mining and milling profit share agreements with high-grade British Columbia-based gold projects. Nicola’s fully permitted mill can process both gold and silver mill feed via gravity and flotation processes.
The company owns 100 per cent of the New Craigmont project, a property that hosts historic high-grade copper mineralization and covers an area of over 10,800 hectares along the southern end of the Guichon batholith, and is adjacent to Highland Valley, Canada’s largest copper mine. The company also owns 100 per cent of the Treasure Mountain property, which includes 30 mineral claims and a mineral lease, spanning an area exceeding 2,200 hectares.
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