Don McKinnon Retires as Chairman of the Board of Canadian Orebodies

Hemlo Explorers Inc. is a Canada-based mineral exploration company with a portfolio of projects in Ontario and Nunavut. The Company is focused on developing its main Hemlo area projects, including the Project Idaho and the North Limb Project. It has a land package totaling 380 square kilometers (km2) of prospective mineral rights in the Hemlo-Schreiber Greenstone Belt. Its Project Idaho is located three km east of Generation Mining’s Marathon Palladium-Copper (Pd-Cu) proposed open pit operation near Marathon, Ontario and covers approximately 1,385 hectares (ha) over 79 claims. The North Limb Project is located over 15 km northeast of the Williams Mine and consists of 653 cell claims encompassing approximately 8,000 ha. The Belcher Islands Iron Project covers 1,226 ha of Inuit owned land and an additional 21,816 ha of Municipal Land on the Belcher Islands in Nunavut, Canada. It holds a 0.5% net smelter return (NSR) on the McKinnon-Hawkins Gold Project, which comprises over 1,536 ha.