Sparton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:SRI) ("Sparton" or the "Company"), announced today management
appointments for its 74.2% percent owned British Virgin Island ("BVI")
subsidiary company, VanSpar Mining Inc. ("VanSpar"). VanSpar holds various
rights and assets to the Rentian and Guojiaping vanadium projects in Jiangxi
Province China. (See Sparton news releases dated December 2, 2010, March 10,
2011 and March 14, 2011.)
Mr. Adrian Lungan will assume the position of President and Chief Executive
Officer of VanSpar. Mr. Lungan is a graduate geologist and Chairman of Alpha
Prime Investments Ltd., a BVI registered company which owns 18.8% percent of
VanSpar. During a successful international resource industry career spanning
over 30 years, Mr. Lungan has specialized in gold, copper, diamond and base
metals programs in Australia, Asia, China, Africa, South America and the
Pacific Rim. As founder of Uramin Inc., he spearheaded the development of the
world class Trekkopje uranium deposit in Namibia, which was later acquired by
AREVA of France for USD $2.6 Billion. He also established CCEC Ltd. which was
acquired by Regent Pacific of Hong Kong for USD $125million.
Mr. Lungan held senior technical and corporate management positions with several
major mining companies from 1989 to 1997 and negotiated the first gold mining
agreement with the government of Laos for Newmont Mining Corporation. He also
established and managed the Placer Dome Inc. / Placer Pacific Ltd.
joint-venture in Indonesia and was appointed as a director of the Placer Dome
Inc. / Placer Pacific Ltd Joint Venture Company. He has also been associated
with several Canadian based companies, serving as President of Paramount
Ventures and Finance Inc. and as General Manager, Indonesia of Pacific Amber
Resources Ltd.
Other VanSpar appointments include Mr. A. Lee Barker, President and Chief
Executive Officer of the Company, who will become Chairman of VanSpar, Mr.
Charles Ge, Sparton director and China Country Manager, who will become
Managing Director of VanSpar, and Mr. Richard D. Williams, Sparton director,
has also been named to the VanSpar board.
A total of 550,000 VanSpar share purchase options have been granted to officers,
directors and consultants of the Company (300,000) and VanSpar (250,000). Each
option will allow the option holder to purchase one common VanSpar share at a
price of USD $0.25 for 5 years from March 24, 2011.
FINANCIAL UPDATE, QUAM LOAN REPAID
The Company further reports that its subsidiary, Sparton Energy Inc., has fully
repaid the remaining USD $1.5 million portion of the Quam Ventures BVI Ltd.
loan (the Loan") which originally closed on October 2, 2008 (please see Sparton
news releases dated October 3, 2008 and July 28, 2009). All security pledged to
Quam against the Loan has been released back to the Sparton.
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