Cassiar Gold Corp. announced that James Maxwell, P.Geo., has been appointed to the company's board of directors, effective July 12, 2022. Mr. Maxwell has served as a member of Cassiar Gold's technical advisory team and support committees since July 2019 and this appointment represents an expansion of his role with the company.

A professional geoscientist with over 20 years of industry experience focused on exploration and development of orogenic gold discoveries, Mr. Maxwell has been part of discovery teams responsible for five major gold discoveries in Nunavut and Red Lake, Ontario. James is currently the VP exploration for First Mining Gold Corp. and was previously the director of exploration for Sabina Gold &Silver Corp.

where James helped establish a 6-million-ounce gold resource base from discovery to the feasibility study level. Prior to working in Nunavut, Mr. Maxwell established an early career in the Birch-Uchi and Red Lake Greenstone belts where his team earned the Northwestern Ontario prospectors association discovery of the year award for the Rahill-Bonanza discovery. James holds a bachelor of science from the University of Manitoba with a focus on geological sciences and is registered with the professional geoscientists Ontario and the Northwest Territories and Nunavut association of professional engineers and geoscientists.