Finlay Minerals Ltd. announced that sudden passing of its Chief Financial Officer and a director of the company, Richard T. Dauphinee. Rick Dauphinee joined Finlay's Board as a director in 2012 and further assumed the role of Chief Financial Officer in 2017. Additionally, Rick was the Chair of the Company's Audit Committee and a member of the Compensation and Governance Committee.

He was a valued member of the Company's Board of Directors and management, and he will be missed. Rick came to Finlay as a retired Chartered Accountant after 32 years of public practice. For 28 years of those years, he was a partner of Rick Dauphinee Ltd., Chartered Accountants and previously, he was a founding partner of Watson Dauphinee & Masuch, Chartered Accountants in Vancouver.