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Re: News Releases - Thursday, May 06, 2010
East Asia Minerals Appoints Edward C. Rochette as Director
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For Immediate release, May 6, 2010 TSXV: EAS
VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Thursday, May 6, 2010 -- East Asia Minerals
Corporation (TSXV-EAS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr.
Edward C. Rochette to the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Rochette
is a lawyer, and an internationally known negotiator and transaction
specialist with 30 years of experience in the acquisition of mining
rights, international business, land management and natural resource
transactions.
The Board of Directors and Management Team welcome Mr. Rochette to the
Board of East Asia Minerals as it moves into its next stage of growth.
Mr. Rochette's extensive and expert background further adds to the
depth of the Board and in particular adds important strength to the
international and law component of the Board.
Mr. Rochette's primary experience involves setting up initial corporate
and legal structures for new ventures, assisting in the preparation for
taking companies public on international stock exchanges, negotiating
joint venture agreements, negotiating the acquisition of property
rights, obtaining operating licenses, setting up the corporate
structure to manage licenses, leases and joint venture agreements, and
legal due diligence. He has concluded mining transactions involving
gold and other precious metals, uranium, iron ore, nickel, coal and oil
& gas in Asia, Central Asia, Africa, North America and a number of
countries in South America, as well as the Balkan and Scandinavian
regions in Europe.
Currently Mr. Rochette is working as a Partner with IBDA, a premier
consulting firm in China conducting business in Beijing and other areas
of the world, where his responsibilities include being the transaction
specialist in the international mining sector. Previously he was
Senior Vice President of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., a publicly traded copper
and gold mining company with its head office in Vancouver, B.C.,
Canada, on an international posting from 1991 into 2006 as the
"gluemeister" reporting directly to Robert Friedland for 16 years.
This responsibility included the negotiation to acquire the world class
Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project, and thereafter living in Mongolia from
2001 to 2005. Currently Mr. Rochette splits his time living in
Beijing, China and Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia.
About East Asia Minerals Corporation
East Asia Minerals (EAS-TSXV) is an Asian-based, Canadian mineral
exploration company with gold and gold-copper exploration properties in
Indonesia, and uranium exploration properties in Mongolia. In
Indonesia the Company has a 70 to 85% interest in six advanced gold and
gold-copper properties located in Aceh Province, Sumatra, and Sangihe
Island, North Sulawesi. The Company owns eight uranium properties,
including the advanced Ingiin-Nars, Ulaan Nuur and Enger uranium
projects, and two phosphate properties in Mongolia. East Asia
currently has 71,455,372 shares outstanding. Its shares are listed for
trading on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "EAS".
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as
that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange)
accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, visit the Company's website at
www.EAminerals.com, or contact:
Michael Hawkins, President and CEO Vancouver T: +1-604-684-2183 E:
Hawkins@EAminerals.com
Nick Kohlmann, Corporate Communications Toronto T: +1-416-792-8734
E: Kohlmann@EAminerals.com
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Copyright (c) 2010 EAST ASIA MINERALS CORPORATION (EAM) All rights
reserved. For more information visit our website at
http://www.eaminerals.com/ or send mailto:info@eaminerals.com
Message sent on Thu May 6, 2010 at 7:11:03 AM Pacific Time
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CODE : EAS.V |
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East Asia Minerals is a gold and silver exploration company based in Canada. East Asia Minerals holds various exploration projects in Indonesia. Its main exploration properties are KHOK ADAR, ENGER, ULAAN NUUR and INGIIN-NARS in Mongolia and TANGSE, TAKENGON, BARISAN 2 PORPHYRY PROJECTS, ABONG, SANGIHE, MIWAH, UPPER TENKERENG and BARISAN in Indonesia. East Asia Minerals is listed in Canada and in Germany. Its market capitalisation is CA$ 8.3 millions as of today (US$ 6.3 millions, € 5.3 millions). Its stock quote reached its highest recent level on May 14, 2010 at CA$ 8.73, and its lowest recent point on January 01, 2016 at CA$ 0.01. East Asia Minerals has 53 790 000 shares outstanding. |