VANCOUVER (miningweekly.com) – Midtier miner Eldorado Gold on Friday announced the planned retirement of president and CEO Paul Wright in April 2017, tapping current Goldcorp executive VP and COO George Burns to succeed him.
Vancouver-based Eldorado said Wright will remain on the Eldorado board as chairperson, replacing incumbent Robert Gilmore who will continue to serve on the board, moving to the position of vice-chairperson and independent lead director.
Burns brings with him 30 years of mining experience and was appointed executive VP and chief COO of Goldcorp in August 2012. Before that, he held the positions of senior VP for Mexican operations and VP for Canada and US, respectively. Before joining Goldcorp, Burns was VP and COO of fellow Canadian miner Centerra Gold.
He joins Eldorado at a time when it is focused on expanding operations in Greece with the Olympias Phase 2 expansion and construction of the Skouries gold/copper mine. It also has a pipeline of other projects, including Perama Hill, in Greece, Certej, in Romania, and Tocantinzinho, in Brazil. Eldorado also has operations in Turkey and Serbia.
Goldcorp announced separately that senior VP for technical services and business excellence Todd White will succeed Burns as executive VP and COO effective January 1.
White, with two decades of mining experience, joined Goldcorp in 2014. Before that, he was senior VP for South America at Newmont Mining Corporation.
Edited by: Creamer Media Reporter
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