Targa Exploration Corp. announced the election of Mr. James Paterson, the new Chairman of the Board and Mr. Cameron Tymstra, CEO and President of Targa, to the Board of Directors at its latest annual general meeting held on December 11th. Mr. Tymstra has replaced Mr. Jon Ward as a director and Mr. Ward will remain as VP Corporate Development.

Mr. Paterson is a co-founder and principal of Discovery Group and has 25 years of executive leadership experience in the mining industry, including capital raises, acquisitions, joint-ventures, spinouts, and RTOs and IPOs. He was a driving force behind $80 million in equity financing for ValOre Metals, which led to multiple discoveries at the Angilak uranium project and Pedra Branca PGE project. He is a director of K2 Gold, Latitude Uranium and Gold Basin Resources.

He was a director of Kaminak Gold Corp. (acquired by Goldcorp), Northern Empire Resources Corp. (acquired by Coeur Mining) and Great Bear Royalties (acquired by Royal Gold).

He founded Corsa Capital in 2007, and a 2010 transaction created metallurgical coal producer with a CAD 250 million marketing capitalization. Mr. Cameron Tymstra is the Company's current Chief Executive Officer and President and has over 15 years of mining industry experience managing projects in Canada, the U.S., and Latin America. He previously held the role of Chief Operations Officer of Latin American Minerals and is currently the President and CEO of CSE-listed Tarachi Gold.

Cameron graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Mining Engineering and holds a Master's in Mining Management from the South Dakota School of Mines.