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Excellon Retains G.R. MacFarlane & Associates to Manage Platosa Test-Mining Program.


TORONTO -- Excellon Resources Inc. (TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002)
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 VENTURE:EXN EXN The Exploration Network ) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a consulting agreement with 1194674 Ontario Inc. operating as G.R. MacFarlane MacFarlane or Macfarlane is a surname shared by:
  • Alan Macfarlane (born 1941), a professor of anthropological science at Cambridge University
  • Alexander Macfarlane (mathematician) (1851-1913), a Scottish-Canadian logician, physicist, and mathematician
 & Associates pursuant to which its principal, Mr. G. Ross MacFarlane, P.Eng, will become primarily responsible for the overall management and operation of the Company's ongoing test mining program at its Platosa/Saltierra Property in Durango State, Mexico. G.R. MacFarlane & Associates has provided ongoing consulting services to the Platosa project since 2002, but has now agreed to devote the time required to fully manage the operation of the Platosa test-mining project.

Mr. MacFarlane is a graduate Mining Engineer with over 30 years of wide ranging experience in the mining industry. His experience includes senior responsibilities in the operation of mines and mills as well as mine project developments from feasibility to construction and the start-up of operations in Canada as well as in South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. As a consultant to Excellon, Mr. MacFarlane has provided expertise in development of the Platosa/Saltierra project as well as successfully implementing the current test mining operation. He was also instrumental in negotiating the commercial terms for the sale of the high-grade mineralization Mineralization
The process by which the body uses minerals to build bone structure.

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mineralization,
n the bioprecipitation of an inorganic substance.
 being mined at Platosa.

The Company further announces that, pursuant to its 2004 Incentive Stock Option Plan, it has granted an incentive stock option to G.R. MacFarlane & Associates to purchase up to 1,650,000 common shares at a price of $0.62 per share for a period of 5 years expiring on February 28, 2011.

On behalf of EXCELLON RESOURCES INC.

Richard W. Brissenden, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

A. Douglas MacKenzie, Vice-Chairman

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