Dowling Leaves DeBeers to join Meridian Gold

DeBeers will lose their Executive Director of Mining and Exploration at the end of August as Edward Dowling join's Nevada-Based Meridian Gold's board of Directors and will be named designate to current CEO and President Brian Kennedy. Dowling will move to Reno, Nevada from Johannesburg, South Africa, where he has resided for two years while working for De Beers.