VANCOUVER (Commodity Online): Silver Wheaton Corp. (TSX:SLW)(NYSE:SLW) has appointed Mr Haytham Hodaly as its new Senior Vice President for Corporate Development and and Neil Burns is the new Director of Geology with effect from January 1, 2012.
Mr. Hodaly brings with him over 16 years of experience in the North American securities industry, most recently as Director and Mining Analyst, Global Mining Research, at RBC Capital Markets. In this role, he was responsible for providing, to a wide range of institutional clients around the globe, up-to-date and insightful research coverage of North American-listed precious metals companies.
Mr. Burns is a geologist with over 17 years of exploration, mining, and resource evaluation experience in the Americas, Europe and Africa. He will also assume the role of Vice President, Technical Services.
"We are pleased to have someone of Haytham's calibre join our talented team of corporate development professionals and as a highly regarded mining analyst with extensive resource-based experience, Haytham has in-depth knowledge of a large number of mining projects around the world. This, along with his key industry relationships, will further enable Silver Wheaton to achieve its goal of acquiring additional high-quality silver streams and to grow its world-class portfolio of assets."said Randy Smallwood, President and Chief Executive Officer, Silver Wheaton.
Silver Wheaton is the largest silver streaming company in the world. Based upon its current agreements, forecast 2011 attributable production is 25 to 26 million silver equivalent ounces, including 15,000 ounces of gold.
