Sranan Gold Announces Appointment of Ron Halas to the Board
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Sranan Gold (OTCQB: SRANF) announced the appointment of Ron Halas, P.Eng., to its board of directors as an independent director on January 26, 2026. Mr. Halas is a Canadian mining engineer with more than 35 years of experience across mineral evaluation, project development and operations in open-pit and underground mining.
He lived and worked in Suriname for over five years as IAMGOLD's Vice President, Commercial - South America, reviewed assets including the area around Sranan Gold's Tapanahony Project, and participated in negotiations related to the Saramacca concession. He has recent COO experience advancing feasibility and development-stage projects and will serve as an independent director under applicable securities laws and CSE policies.
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- 35+ years of mining technical and operational experience
- Over 5 years of direct Suriname experience including IAMGOLD leadership
- Track record advancing projects from evaluation to feasibility and development
- Appointed as an independent director under securities laws and CSE policies
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Edmonton, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - January 26, 2026) - Sranan Gold Corp. (CSE: SRAN) (OTCQB: SRANF) (FSE: P84) (Tradegate: P84) ("Sranan Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Ron Halas, P.Eng. to the Company's Board of Directors as an independent director.
Mr. Halas is a Canadian mining engineer with more than 35 years of experience spanning mineral evaluation, project development, and operations across both open-pit and underground mining. Over the course of his career, he has held senior technical, operating, and executive roles with major and mid-tier mining companies, including IAMGOLD, Kinross Gold, Vale, PT Freeport Indonesia, Placer Dome, and Cominco, providing him with extensive experience across the full mining lifecycle.
Mr. Halas lived and worked in Suriname for over five years as IAMGOLD's Vice President, Commercial - South America, based in Paramaribo. In that role, he worked closely with IAMGOLD's exploration and development teams to review numerous gold assets across Suriname, including the area encompassing Sranan Gold's Tapanahony Project. He was also part of the team that negotiated with the Government of Suriname and local landholders in connection with the acquisition of the Saramacca concession for IAMGOLD's Rosebel Gold Mine.
In more recent public-company leadership roles, Mr. Halas served as Chief Operating Officer of Global Atomic Corp., where he played a key role in advancing the Dasa uranium project from PEA stage toward mine development on an accelerated timeline, and as Chief Operating Officer of Lumina Gold Corp., where he led feasibility-level advancement efforts at the Cangrejos gold-copper project. He continues to act as a senior technical advisor to mining issuers as they progress projects through development planning, permitting, and feasibility-level milestones.
Oscar Louzada, CEO of Sranan Gold, stated: "We are pleased to welcome Mr. Halas to the Board. Ron brings deep technical, operational, and transactional experience across the mining lifecycle, along with first-hand knowledge of Suriname and its gold industry. His track record of advancing projects from evaluation through development and executing value-realizing transactions will be valuable as we continue to advance our portfolio and pursue our strategy in Suriname."
Mr. Halas has no material relationship with the Company and qualifies as an independent director under applicable securities laws and Canadian Securities Exchange policies.
About Sranan Gold
Sranan Gold Corp. is engaged in the business of mineral exploration and the acquisition of mineral property assets in Suriname. The Company's flagship Tapanahony Project covers 29,000 hectares in one of Suriname's most prolific artisanal gold mining districts.
For more information, please visit www.sranangold.com.
For further information, please contact:
Oscar Louzada, CEO
+31 6 25438975
THE CANADIAN SECURITIES EXCHANGE HAS NOT APPROVED NOR DISAPPROVED THE CONTENT OF THIS PRESS RELEASE.
Forward-looking Statements
Certain statements in this release constitute "forward-looking statements" or "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws including, without limitation, the timing, nature, scope and details regarding the Company's exploration plans and results at its projects. Such statements and information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company, its projects, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or information. Such statements can be identified by the use of words such as "may", "would", "could", "will", "intend", "expect", "believe", "plan", "anticipate", "estimate", "scheduled", "forecast", "predict" and other similar terminology, or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. These statements reflect the Company's current expectations regarding future events, performance and results and speak only as of the date of this release. Further details about the risks applicable to the Company are contained in the Company's public filings available on SEDAR+ (www.sedarplus.ca), under the Company's profile.
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