Senior Management Appointment

Great Western Mining Corporation PLC

("Great Western Mining", "GWM" or the "Company")

Senior Management Appointment

Great Western Mining (AIM: GWMO, ESM: 8GW) is pleased to announce that Mr. William ("Bill") Cooper has joined the Company as Chief Geologist with immediate effect.

Chairman, Brian Hall commented: "This is a significant new senior appointment for Great Western Mining and will strengthen our team at a time when we are engaged in multiple exploration activities on our mineral leases in Nevada"

Chief Executive, David Fraser commented "I am delighted to welcome Bill Cooper as Chief Geologist of the Company. His wealth of relevant experience will be a real asset to Great Western Mining where he will initially take responsibility for the analysis of current year drilling results from M2 and M4."

Further Information

Bill Cooper is an experienced mining geologist whose career has covered near mine site exploration, underground production geology, open pit production geology, resource definition drilling and planning and resource estimation. He holds a MSc in Mining Geology from the Cambourne School of Mines. He is a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (MAIG) and a Fellow of the Geological Society of London (FGS).

Most recently Bill was Senior Geologist - Resources & Mining at consultants CSA Global in the UK where he conducted mine geology and resource estimation services for clients worldwide. He was part of the CSA Mine Value Team set up to provide clients with a multi-disciplinary technical team, focused on improving mine geology and reconciliation to add value to projects. He provided technical reporting of Mineral Resource updates for AIM, ASX and TSX requirements, to JORC, CIM compliance.

Earlier in his career, Bill Cooper was an Exploration geologist in Australia with Barrick Gold Australia Pacific where he progressed to become an underground mine geologist, managing a team of dedicated underground personnel. For part of his time with Barrick he was also an open pit mine geologist at the Fimiston Open Pit, operated by Barrick Gold subsidiary Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines. Subsequently, still in Australia, he moved to Focus Minerals, where he was Project Geologist responsible for drill planning and supervision, 3D geological interpretation, drill logging, open pit production reporting and geological supervision, in-pit grade control supervision and grade control modelling.

Bill has a wide experience of commodity and deposit types, with particular expertise in copper and gold.

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