Silver specialist appointed to new Technical Advisory Board
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ASX:WCE ANNOUNCEMENT
28 October 2025
Silver specialist appointed to new Technical
Advisory Board
• David Lewis and Ian Stockton appointed to West Coast Silver’s newly formed
Technical Advisory Board
• Lewis: silver specialists with 20+ years in structurally controlled silver/gold
systems; led 2023 grassroots discovery at Campbell-Crawford (Canada)
• Appointments bolster structural targeting, drill optimisation and discovery at
Elizabeth Hill
West Coast Silver Limited (ASX: WCE) (West Coast Silver or the Company) is pleased to
announce Mr David Lewis joins Mr Ian Stockton, from ERM Gobal, who is currently engaged in
exploration role, to the Company’s newly-formed Technical Advisory Board, effective
immediately.
About David Lewis
Mr David Lewis is a structural and exploration geologist with more than two decades of
experience spanning Canada and international projects in Peru, Saudi Arabia, Greenland, the
United States and Mali. His senior roles include First Cobalt Corp. (2017–2019) and Kuya Silver
Corp. as Vice President Exploration (2021–2025), where he directed the reinterpretation and
targeting that led to a new high-grade silver discovery at Campbell-Crawford in the historic
Cobalt, Ontario mining camp - considered the district’s first in more than 50 years.
Mr Lewis brings deep expertise in structurally controlled precious-metal systems, 3D geological
modelling, drill targeting and project-scale structural synthesis. He holds a B.Sc. (Geological
Sciences) from the University of Saskatchewan and an M.Sc. (Geology) from Laurentian
University, and is a Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo) with Professional Geoscientists Ontario.
About Ian Stockton
Mr Ian Stockton has been engaged by the Company in an exploration management capacity and
will join Mr David Lewis on West Coast Silver’s Technical Advisory Board, further strengthening
the Company’s exploration and technical capability.
Mr Stockton is an accomplished exploration geologist with more than 30 years’ experience and a
track record of contributing to multiple discovery teams across Western Australia, NSW, and QLD
as well as international roles in SE Asia, Eastern Europe and South America. He holds a B.Sc.
(Geology) from the University of Canberra and is the APAC Geology Manager for the ERM
Technical Mining Services Division, based in Perth. His core strengths include exploration
Highlights
targeting & Strategy, project Management and, integration of geology, geophysics & geochemistry
data to sharpen target definition and prioritisation.
Strategic Fit with Elizabeth Hill
Lewis and Stockton will support West Coast Silver’s near-mine and district-scale programs at
Elizabeth Hill by:
• Refining structural controls on high-grade shoots and vein sets;
• Optimising hole orientation and step-outs for current and follow-up diamond programs;
and
• Integrating geophysics, geochemistry and historical datasets into a coherent structural
model to accelerate discovery along the Munni Munni corridor.
Commenting on the appointment, Executive Chairman, Bruce Garlick said:
“Adding David and Ian meaningfully deepens our technical bench. David’s recent success in
delivering new high-grade silver discoveries in a mature district, paired with Ian’s decades of
Australian and international discovery experience, gives us exactly the structural rigour and
practical targeting we want embedded at Elizabeth Hill.”
This ASX announcement has been authorised for release by the Board of Directors of West
Coast Silver Limited.
For further information, please contact:
Bruce Garlick
Executive Director
West Coast Silver Limited
E: info@westcoastsilver.com.au
Dannika Warburton
Investor & Media Relations
E: westcoastsilver@investability.com.au
Competent Person Statement
The information in this announcement that relates to Exploration Results is based on information reviewed by Mr Max
Nind who is a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists. Mr Nind is a consultant to West Coast Silver and a
full time employee of ERM Australia Consultants Pty Ltd.
Mr Nind has sufficient experience that is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposits under
consideration, and to the activity being undertaken to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of
the Joint Ore Reserves Committee (JORC) ‘Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources
and Ore Reserves’, and a Specialist under the VALMIN Code 2015 Edition of the‘Australasian Code for Public Reporting
of Technical Assessments and Valuations of Mineral Assets’. Mr Nind consents to the inclusion in the announcement
of the matters based on this information and in the form and context in which it appears.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this announcement which are not statements of historical facts, including but not limited to those
relating to the proposed transaction, are forward-looking statements. These statements instead represent
management’s current expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events. Although management
believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, forward-looking statements
are based on the opinions, assumptions and estimates of management at the date the statements are made and are
subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ
materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Accordingly, investors are cautioned not to place
undue reliance on such statements.
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