WPG Resources Ltd. announced that Mr. Cornel Parshotam has been appointed Chief Operating Officer effective July 1, 2016. Cornel is a mining professional with over 36 years of leadership and operational experience in the minerals industry. He joins company from his most recent position as Head of Operations at BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam mine in South Australia. Prior to that, he was the General Manager Mine at Olympic Dam. Before joining BHP he was Acting Operations Manager at Emperor Gold Mines in Fiji and before that General Manager Operations at Metallon Gold in Zimbabwe. He has held other senior management positions in underground and open pit gold and base metal mining operations and processing in Africa and Australasia, at scales varying from small to large.