Origin Gold Corporation nominates Dr. Kevin Telmer to its Advisory Board

MONTREAL, Aug. 29, 2018 - Origin Gold Corporation ("Origin or the “Corporation") (TSX VENTURE: OIC) is pleased to announce the nomination of Dr. Kevin Telmer, to its Advisory Board.

Dr. Kevin Telmer, is the Executive Director of the Artisanal Gold Council (AGC), a non-profit organization that develops innovative programs to improve the environment, economics, and health of the artisanal and small scale gold mining sector in developing countries. Dr. Telmer received his PhD from the University of Ottawa in Geochemistry and held a tenured Professorship at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria from 1999 until 2011 before taking the lead position at the Artisanal Gold Council.

He started his work in artisanal mining in 1995 in the Brazilian Amazon and in the following 20 years has worked in numerous countries across three continents. He has extensive experience in technical, policy, and business capacities in the field with miners, governments, international institutions, and industry. He has become a world renowned expert and a voice on the international stage with numerous publications on the issue, including authoring the global estimate on mercury use in artisanal gold mining used to negotiate the Minamata Convention. The objective of the Minamata Convention is to protect human health and the environment from mercury releases. It has been signed by 128 countries.

Creating sustainable business opportunities for investors and the bullion and jewelry markets while improving the economics, health and environment of miners and their communities in collaboration with governments is a direction that Dr. Telmer brings to the council. A primary goal is to increase responsible artisanal gold production to volumes that are significant relative to the size of the burgeoning sector.

Dr. Telmer welcomes the opportunity to join the advisory committee of Origin where he expects to help lead the Corporation to become a world leading transformative engine for the artisanal gold mining sector, aiming to professionalize it and build a scalable responsible gold production system. Dr. Telmer will contribute in a variety of ways to technical, management, governance needs, innovations and financing.

"We are pleased to see Dr. Telmer joining our team of experts," comments Jean Depatie, Chairman of the board of Origin. “His arrival will certainly help to create a climate of confidence, in our efforts to develop a winning combination that will satisfy the artisanal gold producers that operate in the area of our recently acquired La Pantera gold project in Northern Colombia” (news release dated August 17, 2018).


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Origin is a mineral exploration company with its exploration activities focused in Colombia.


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