Northern Dynasty Appoints Pebble Feasibility Study Director.VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension VENTURE:NDM NDM Nonfat Dry Milk NDM National Democratic Movement NDM Network Data Mover NDM Natural Disaster Management NDM Newspaper Designated Market NDM Near Dry Machining (applying a very small amount of lubricant in lieu of flood coolant) )(AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :NAK) Ronald W. Thiessen, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Hunter Dickinson Inc. ("HDI") and Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. ("Northern Dynasty"), is pleased to announce the appointment of Stephen Hodgson, P.Eng, as Vice President of Engineering for HDI and Feasibility Study Director for Northern Dynasty's Pebble Project, effective March 15, 2005. Mr. Hodgson has more than 28 years of experience in mine operations, mine development, and project engineering, most recently, as the Technical Director, Mining and Study Manager for AMEC AMEC African Methodist Episcopal Church AMEC Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce AMEC Arctic Military Environmental Cooperation AMEC Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc AMEC Association of Media Evaluation Companies Americas Limited. His past experience includes senior positions with internationally recognized engineering firms including MRDI MRDI Medical Record Disease Indices (epidemiology) MRDI McCanse Readiness for Death Instrument (questionnaire) Canada as President, H.A. Simons Ltd. as Manager of Mining for Simons Mining Group, and Cominco Engineering Services Ltd. as Principal Mining Engineer. His background includes a focus on copper-gold projects. He was the Feasibility Study Manager and Qualified Person for Ivanhoe's Oyu Tolgoi project in Mongolia. He was also Mining Lead for Teck's copper/gold porphyry Petaquilla project in Panama and for Battle Mountain's Phoenix project in Nevada. His experience also includes various gold developments - he has led study teams for projects such as Patricia Mining's Island Zone in Ontario and NovaGold's Donlin Creek in Alaska. As Vice President of Engineering, Mr. Hodgson will be involved in evaluating, managing and coordinating detailed engineering studies for advanced stage mineral development projects for the companies within the HDI group. His first assignment will be as Feasibility Study Director with Northern Dynasty, where he will join the Pebble Project Team to manage the completion of a Feasibility Study "A Feasibility Study" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 13 April, 1964, during the first season. It was remade in 1997 as part of the revived The Outer Limits series with a minor title change. for the large scale Pebble gold-copper-molybdenum project in Alaska. Mr. Hodgson will join the existing Pebble Project executive team comprised of Robert Dickinson (Geology and Resources), Brian Mountford (Project Infrastructure and Road, Power and Port Engineering) and Bruce Jenkins (Environment, Socioeconomic, Government and Community Relations and Permitting), whose objective is to advance development of the Pebble Project in a rigorous and timely manner. Mr. Hodgson is a registered Professional Engineer (BC) who holds a Bachelor of Science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies in Mineral Engineering (Mining) from the University of Alberta. He sits on the advisory committee of the British Columbia Institute of Technology's Mining Technology Program and is a member of several industry associations: Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum; Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada; and American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) is a professional body for mining and metallurgy, with 90,000 members. It was founded in 1871 by 22 mining engineers in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States, being one of the first national . Mr. Hodgson's wealth of experience and expertise will greatly assist the Hunter Dickinson group of companies. Review Northern Dynasty's Canadian public filings at www.sedar.com and US public filings at www.sec.gov. ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ronald W. Thiessen, President and CEO No exchange or regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained in this news release. Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:NDM) (AMEX:NAK) |
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