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Avalon hires Mark Wiseman as VP of Sustainability

23rd Nov 2011, 3:32 pm by Brad Lemaire
Avalon hires Mark Wiseman as VP of Sustainability

Avalon Rare Metals (TSE:AVL) has hired Mark Wiseman as vice president of sustainability, the company announced Wednesday.

Under this role, Wiseman will be in charge of making sure the company delivers on its Corporate Social Responsibility obligations.

Most importantly, he will "champion" Avalon’s health and safety programs to achieve the goal of zero harm in the workplace.

In a statement, president, Don Bubar, said: "The addition of Wiseman to our management team is a testament to Avalon's commitment to bringing the Nechalacho project into production in the most environmentally responsible and safest way possible.

"He actively promotes the principles of sustainability, and knows they can be achieved in a mining environment."

He brings over 30 years worth of experience in the mining industry specifically in the area of community, environment and health and safety.

He has served as director of health, safety and permitting for Xstrata Nickel on the Koniambo project in New Caledonia.

Prior to that, Wiseman held a multitude of similar positions with Falconbridge Limited, in Canada and abroad. He spent three years at the Collahuasi project in Chile, where he reached a safety record of two million hours without lost time injuries.

Avalon is a mineral explorer and developer focused on rare metals deposits in Canada. Its flagship project, the 100 percent owned Nechalacho Deposit, situated in Thor Lake, Northwest Territories, is emerging as one of the largest undeveloped rare earth elements resources in the world.

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