Boreal Metals Corporation announced the appointment of Thomas Söderqvist as an independent, non-executive director effective January 1, 2019. Mr. Söderqvist is a mining professional with over 40 years' of experience in the mining industry and is currently Senior Vice President of the Boliden Group based in Stockholm. He has held management positions in some of the companies in the Swedish mining industry including Boliden and Sandvik Mining and Construction. Mr. Söderqvist started his career in mining at age 18 with the Swedish mining company Boliden where he worked as an underground miner. He joined Sandvik and participated actively in Sandvik's acquisition of Tamrock which formed a new global equipment company in hard rock mining.  During the Sandvik years, he spent five years managing the Canadian operations based out of Sudbury, Ontario.  He then went on to manage Sandvik's mining and construction business in northern, central and eastern Europe for six years and was promoted to Senior Vice President for Sandvik Mining and Construction.