DENVER, March 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Vista Gold Corp.
(TSX & NYSE American: VGZ) ("Vista" or the "Company") today
announced that it has increased the size of its Board of Directors
from six to seven, and appointed Ms. Deborah Friedman as a director of the Company.
Ms. Friedman is a successful mining company executive with over 38
years of international and domestic industry experience with major,
mid-tier and junior companies, and a retired partner from the law
firm of Davis Graham & Stubbs
LLP. The Board of Directors will consider board committee
appointments at its next regularly scheduled meeting.
Vista's Chairman of the Board, Mr. Michael Richings, commented, "We are pleased to
welcome Deborah Friedman to the
Board and look forward to her contributions as we seek a partner
for the development of the Mt Todd gold project. We believe
that Ms. Friedman's past experience with domestic and international
development project joint ventures, corporate and project finance,
business combination transactions, mine development/operations
matters, and exploration joint ventures, will be of benefit as the
Company continues its efforts to realize shareholder value in line
with the intrinsic value of the Mt Todd gold project. We are
very fortunate to add someone with Deborah's credentials and
extensive international experience to our Board."
About Vista Gold Corp.
The Company is a well-funded gold project developer. The
Company's principal asset is its flagship Mt Todd gold project in
Northern Territory, Australia. Mt Todd is the largest
undeveloped gold project in Australia.
For further information, please contact the Company at (720)
981-1185.
Forward Looking Statements
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meaning of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and U.S.
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and forward-looking
information within the meaning of Canadian securities laws.
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results, performance or achievements of the Company to be
materially different from any future results, performance or
achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Such
factors include, among others, those factors discussed under the
headings "Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" and "Risk
Factors" in the Company's latest Annual Report on Form 10-K as
filed in February 2019 and other
documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
and Canadian securities regulatory authorities. Although we
have attempted to identify important factors that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those described in
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may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated,
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