Sierra Iron creates technical advisory board

Jan 19, 2016

SIERRA CREATES TECHNICAL ADVISORY BOARD

Sierra Iron Ore Corp. has created a technical advisory board to assist management with its Emo, Ont., exploration and development project.

Heading the advisory board will be Dr. Frank Puskas, PhD.

About Dr. Puskas:

Dr. Puskas is an honours graduate and holds a bachelor of science degree in geology with a minor in chemistry from McMaster University, a master of science degree with a minor in chemistry from Lehigh University and a PhD from Lehigh University/University of Minnesota.

Dr. Puskas has a proven record which includes 14 discoveries with International Nickel Company and Anaconda American Brass, of which 10 became productive mines.

Dr. Puskas has over 30 years of experience in the mining industry; he previously worked for the Ontario Department of Mines and the Geological Society of Canada, was a senior staff geologist for 23 years with INCO and worked as the senior geologist for seven years with Anaconda American Brass where he was charge of exploration in Central Canada.

While working with INCO, he reviewed, interpreted and supervised exploration for all commodities worldwide. Many projects were extensive in area and involved large data sets. Many of the geological models developed by Dr. Puskas became the basis from which area plays later results. Dr. Puskas is currently a member of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada and has pending professional accreditation with the Association of Geoscientists of Ontario. Large area projects involving large databases which were successfully decoded and modeled by Dr. Puskas include the following:

Noranda-Rouyn entire 35 mine volcanogenic massive sulphides camp; the lead edge VMS model is being reviewed prior to publication;
Discovered Casa Berardi break which led to discovery of the producing mines at Douay (1.85 million ounces gold) and the three mines (greater than three million ounces Au) at Casa Berardi;
Modelled ultramafic komatiitic flows hosting Langmuir (copper-nickel-cobalt-platinum-group-metals) mine and entire Shaw Dome and Alexo mine;
Modelled INCO’s Widgemootha (four million tonnes Cu-Ni-Co) mine and entire Kambalda Dome in Western Australia;
Chester Osprey Twps studies resulted in first to identify silver-gold-molybdenum-copper sulphide mineralization as porphyry-hosted; study included discovery of open pittable Au deposit at Cote Lake;
Modelled 50-million-tonne deposit located north of Voisey’s Bay (150 million tonnes Cu-Ni-Co) discovery;
Three major discoveries (San Alberto, 1.7 million tonnes; Tepal, 40 million tonnes; El Violin, 75 million tonnes) with one producer in the Chilanzingo Obregon area of the Sierras, Mexico; modelled and discovered VMS mineralization north of producing mines at Buchans, Nfld.;
Modelled Kirkland Lake Au camp, Anoki mine and Upper Canada mine;
Discovered and modelled resurgent cauldera-hosting epigenetic Au-Ag mineralization of two million tonnes at Vault, B.C.;
Identified new resource following modelling of Shebandowan (17 million tonnes Cu-Ni-Co-PGM) mine;
Modelled Thompson mine (80,000 tonnes Cu-Ni-Co-PGM) and Thompson nickel belt following a three-year underground study;
Discovered and Modelled Marathon Cu-Ni-PGM sulphide deposit of 91 million tonnes; same model was successfully applied to Duluth (Minn., U.S.), Sudbury (Ont., Canada) and Stillwater (Mont., U.S.).