August 17, 2009
METALS CREEK ADDS RICHARD NEMIS TO ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Toronto, August 17, 2009. Metals Creek Resources Corp. (the “Corporation”, TSXV: “MEK”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Richard Nemis to the Board Of Directors. Mr. Nemis has been involved in the junior resource sector for the past 40 years and has been directly involved in a number of deposit discoveries. After graduating from Osgoode Hall Law School he was called to the bar in the Province of Ontario as Barrister and Solicitor in 1968. He practiced law until approximately 1995 in the fields of corporate, commercial and securities law. From 1980 to 2008, Mr. Nemis served as the President and CEO of Noront Resources Ltd. In 2008 Mr. Nemis was named Chairman Emeritus of Noront for life in recognition of his outstanding pivotal contributions to that company’s success, which included the discovery of “The Ring of Fire” in the McFaulds Lake area, Ontario. Also during his tenure with Noront, Noront funded the exploration and discovery of the Beaver Brook Antimony Mine in Gander, Newfoundland. While President and CEO of Central Crude Ltd. (currently River Gold Mines Inc.), the company discovered and developed the Eagle River Gold Mine in Wawa, Ontario, currently in production. Other discoveries developed during his tenure with Central Crude include the Moss Lake Deposit located west of Thunder Bay, Ontario and the Geauga County Gas Field, a large oil and gas field in Ohio, USA. Earlier in his career, Mr. Nemis was associated with Mr. Noble Harbinson and the Harbinson Group of companies, which included Consolidated Durham Mines, Spooner Mines and Oils, Dominion Explorers, Noble Mines and Oils and Onaping Resources. Mr. Nemis is currently a senior member and part owner of what is considered to be the largest structural steel fabricator in northern Ontario, operating since 1946 out of Sudbury, Ontario.
Alexander Stares states “Mr. Nemis’ extensive experience and knowledge in the resource sector and long history of success will add significantly to the Board of Metals Creek and we welcome him to our team.”
Mr. Nemis will sit as an independent director on the Board.
The Corporation also announces the granting of 1,480,000 stock options to certain directors, officers, employees and consultants of the Corporation. All such options will have a term of five years from the date of grant, an exercise price of $0.15 per share, and be subject to vesting provisions and the terms and conditions of the Corporation’s stock option plan.
About Metals Creek Resources Corp.
Metals Creek Resources Corp. is incorporated under the laws of the Province of Ontario, is a reporting issuer in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario, and has its common shares listed for trading on the Exchange under the symbol “MEK”. Metals Creek can earn a 50 % interest in the Ogden Gold Property, including the former Naybob Gold mine, located 6 km south of Timmins, Ontario and has a 8 km strike length of the prolific Porcupine-Destor Fault (PDF) that stretches between Timmins Ontario and Val’Dor Quebec. The Corporation is also engaged in the identification, acquisition, exploration and development of other mineral resource properties, and presently has mining interests in Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador. Additional information concerning the Corporation is contained in documents filed by the Corporation with securities regulators, available under the company’s profile at www.sedar.com.
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For further information, please contact:
Alexander (Sandy) Stares, President and CEO
Metals Creek Resources Corp
telephone: (709)-256-6060
fax: (709)-256-6061
email: astares@metalscreek.com