TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – Molybdenum miner Thompson Creek Metals has hired Scott Shelhaas as vice president and COO, the company announced on Tuesday.

The firm first reported in June that outgoing COO, Ken Collison, had chosen not to relocate to Denver when the firm closed its Vancouver office.

“Scott has extensive minerals management experience, both domestic and international, involving a number of different metals,” said chairperson and CEO Kevin Loughrey.

From 2000 to 2007, Shellhaas was the CEO designate for venture capital development projects involving coal, iron and steel producers in the US.

He then was vice president of Richmond, Virginia-based Imagin Natural Resources, a start-up natural resource company focusing on the acquisition and operation of coal assets and, since leaving Imagin in 2008, he has provided executive management consulting services to natural resource and energy companies.

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