Novadx Announces Appointment of MCoal Vice President, Finance
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Novadx Ventures Corp., President & CEO, Neil MacDonald, reports:
Novadx Ventures Corp. ("Novadx" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:NDX) is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, MCoal Corporation ("MCoal"), has appointed Mr. Gregory Saragas as Vice President, Finance.
Mr. Saragas is a senior financial executive with over 20 years of financial management experience in the mining industry. Mr. Saragas joins MCoal from Nystar Americas, a global multi-metals company, with zinc mining and smelting operations in Tennessee. At Nystar, Greg acted as Commercial Manager, US Operations and was responsible for overseeing the finance, accounting, IT and purchasing activities of several mine sites and related smelting operations. Prior to joining Nyrstar, Mr. Saragas held the positions of Regional Accounting Officer with Massey Energy, the largest coal producer in Central Appalachia and Chief Financial Officer of Debra Lynn Coals, Inc.
Subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange"), Mr. Saragas will be granted 50,000 options to acquire common shares of Novadx at an exercise price of $0.45 per share for a period of five years. In addition, subject to Exchange approval, Mr. Saragas will receive 25,000 shares of Novadx as a signing bonus to be paid on June 20, 2011. These shares will be subject to a hold period of 4 months and a day from the date of their issuance at which time 25% of the shares will become free trading and thereafter 25% of the shares will become free trading at the end of each 3 month period.
Neil MacDonald, President and CEO of Novadx and President of MCoal Corporation commented, "We are pleased with the addition of Greg to our senior management team at MCoal. Greg is a highly motivated and experienced senior financial manager whose skills are very complimentary to the composition of our growing and experienced team. Greg's extensive mining finance and accounting background make him a natural fit for this role with MCoal."
About Novadx: Novadx Ventures Corp. is a Vancouver based mining investment company. Novadx's primary focus is to invest its capital to acquire and develop companies with active or near production high quality coal reserves in the US Appalachia coal region. Novadx intends to continue to grow the value of its coal investments through expanding production and reserves amongst its existing investments and by investing in additional acquisitions. Novadx is actively evaluating a number of high quality coal acquisition opportunities. For more information please visit [ www.novadx.com ].
About MCoal: MCoal Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Novadx Ventures Corp. which operates the Rosa coal mine in Blount County, Alabama and is developing the Rex No.1 coal mine in Campbell County, Tennessee.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
Neil MacDonald, President and CEO and Director
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