CANADA CARBON ANNOUNCES CEO CHANGE |
March 18th, 2013, Oakville, ON, Canada – Canada Carbon Inc. (the “Company”) (TSX-V: CCB), (FRANKFURT: U7N1) announced today Paul Ogilvie, the President & Chief Executive Officer of the Company, has been replaced, effective immediately, by R. Bruce Duncan, the current Chairman of the Company (and its former President & Chief Executive Officer for many years), as the interim President & Chief Executive Officer. The Company will look to replace Mr. Duncan as interim President & CEO as soon as an acceptable replacement is found. Mr. Duncan stated “We wish to thank Paul Ogilvie for his efforts over the past year in setting in motion the Company’s vision of ultimately becoming a leading carbon sciences company. We remain very excited about the Company’s prospects – especially in light of recently disclosed developments with respect to the Company’s Miller property. I look forward to working productively with Paul Ogilvie on transitional matters with a goal to achieving our vision for the Company”. ABOUT CANADA CARBON INC. (CCB - TSX.V) Canada Carbon is a carbon sciences company - our goal is to be an efficient graphite mining, sales and production company. We are trying to achieve this by deploying proprietary technologies in our post mining and pre-milling air classification systems, sound environmental policies, best practices companywide and employing the best people available to us. Together, our goals will be realized by being customer centric and using leading edge technologies.
Canada Carbon holds 100% interest in five graphite properties: The Asbury, Miller, Walker, Dun Raven and Maria. The Asbury Mine is located north of the Ottawa-Gatineau area. The open pit mine and mill were in operation from 1980 to 1989 where a total of less than 70,000 tons were processed. The Miller mine is located northeast of Ottawa in Grenville Township. This mine was worked around 1845 and was probably the first graphite operation in Canada. It is reported that 25 cars of lump graphite were shipped from this deposit in the 1900s. Contact Information
R. Bruce Duncan |