{"id":2538,"date":"2022-06-02T17:07:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T17:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2022-06-02T17:07:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T17:07:45","slug":"augusta-gold-seats-wickens-as-operations-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/02\/augusta-gold-seats-wickens-as-operations-vp\/","title":{"rendered":"Augusta Gold seats Wickens as operations VP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jim Wickens has been appointed as vice president of operations for Canadian developer Augusta Gold, effective immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2539\" src=\"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/augusta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wickens, a 35-year mining and operations veteran, has spent most of his career in operations with gold majors Placer Dome and&nbsp;Barrick Gold&nbsp;in&nbsp;Canada&nbsp;and the United States.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was also the process manager for&nbsp;Haile gold mine&nbsp;through the project\u2019s feasibility study and detailed engineering phases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to operations, Wickens has worked as a consultant to the mining industry in the fields of equipment supply and metallurgical laboratory testing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHis skillset and prior experience will help to solidify our team as we launch into advanced studies, detailed engineering and anticipated construction of the Reward and Bullfrog gold projects,\u201d President and CEO Don Taylor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe only way these projects can be advanced on time and within budget is with well-connected, quality staff and management. Jim will be an important and integral part of the team leading the projects forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Augusta\u2019s Reward and Bullfrog gold projects are located in the prolific Bullfrog mining district, approximately 120 miles northwest of&nbsp;Las Vegas&nbsp;and just outside of&nbsp;Beatty, Nev.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustagold.com\/\">Augusta Gold&nbsp;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Wickens has been appointed as vice president of operations for Canadian developer Augusta Gold, effective immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[495],"tags":[1146,604],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-augusta-gold","tag-leadership"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/augusta.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/2540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}