TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – Toronto-based Avion Resources has appointed Christopher Bradbrook as vice president for strategic development, effective immediately, the firm announced on Wednesday.

Bradbrook was previously CEO of New Gold, and left the position early last year. Before that he was corporate development vice president for Vancouver-based Goldcorp.

He will help Avion to establish itself, first as an emerging gold producer, “and ultimately as a key consolidator of gold assets in West Africa,” the firm said.

In March last year, Avion agreed to buy an 80% stake in the mothballed Tabakoto gold mine, in Mali, the nearby Segala deposit and surrounding exploration properties, from Nevsun Resources.

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