Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Signs welcoming Highland Copper Company appear in many store windows along River Street in Ontonagon. Company president Dave Fennell will be the parade marshal at the 57th Ontonagon Labor Festival parade on Sunday. The Ontonagon County Economic Partnership is spearheading the welcome project.
ONTONAGON - Ontonagon Labor Festival officials learned Highland Copper president Dave Fennell will be the parade marshal at the Festival Parade Sunday at 2 p.m.
The Ontonagon County Economic Partnership has spearheaded an effort to welcome Highland Copper by distributing "welcome" signs around town.
Fennell received a law degree in 1979 from the University of Alberta and practiced corporate and resource law until 1983 when he founded Golden Star Resources. During his term as president and CEO, Golden Star became one of the largest and most successful exploration companies. In 1998, he left Golden Star to become chairman and CEO of Camblex Explorations, which became Hope Bay Gold Corporation. He held this position until the merger of Hope Bay and Miramar Mining Corporation, where he continued as executive vice chairman and director of the combined entity until its takeover by Newmont Mining Corporation in January 2008.
Presently, he also serves as executive chairman of Bear Lake Gold, and is an officer or director or both in a number of publicly traded resource companies.
