Northern Minerals expands exploration team as it looks to increase resource inventory

Northern Minerals Ltd (ASX:NTU) (OTCMKTS:NOURF) (FRA:NUN) has expanded its exploration team with the appointment of Simon Pooley as general manager of geology and the promotion of Kurt Warburton to exploration manager.  Pooley and Warburton are expected to significantly grow the exploration team as NTU looks to increase the resource inventory at the Brown Range Heavy Rare Earth Project in northern Western Australia.  The company plans to start reverse circulation (RC) drilling in June 2021 to target extensions to mineralisation as well as testing new greenfield prospects.  It will also be undertaking a diamond drilling program targeting depth extensions to the Wolverine resource in the near future.  Simon Pooley’s experience Pooley is a geologist with more than 30 years of broad international experience encompassing roles in the corporate, mine development, operations, and exploration areas. He has held senior industry positions that have demonstrated leadership and management of base and precious metal exploration and mining operations, development of the project including definitive/bankable feasibility studies, and their conversion into mining operations. Pooley is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. His career includes work for Dominion Mining, Ashton Mining and Rio Tinto, covering commodities as diverse as gold, base metals, diamonds and industrial minerals. Kurt Warburton’s profile Warburton is a geologist with over 20 years of international experience in exploration and mining roles encompassing projects in Australia, Africa and North America. For the past 10 years, he has been working in the rare earth segment of the company as a senior and principal geologist and has extensive experience in working with commodities such as uranium, gold, manganese, and copper. Before this, Kurt has worked with Western Metals Corp (OTCMKTS:WTLC), Golden Star Resources, Sons of Gwalia and Consolidated Minerals. One of few producers of dysprosium outside China Northern Minerals is one of the few producers of heavy rare earth element dysprosium outside of China. Through the development of its flagship Browns Range Project, Northern Minerals aims to build the WA operation into a significant world producer of dysprosium outside of China. The project is 100%-owned by Northern Minerals and has several deposits and prospects containing high-value dysprosium and other HREs, hosted in xenotime mineralisation. Dysprosium is an essential ingredient in the production of DyNdFeB (dysprosium neodymium iron-boron) magnets used in clean energy, military and high technology solutions.