MAG Silver Announces the Appointment of Susan Mathieu as a Director

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MAG Silver Corp. (TSX / NYSE American: MAG) (“MAG” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that Ms. Susan Mathieu has joined the Company as a member of the Board of Directors.   

Ms. Mathieu has more than twenty-five years of international mining experience through due diligence, exploration, project development, permitting, construction and operations positions. Susan has experience from mine-site to corporate leadership roles with responsibility for governance, environment, sustainability, community, health and safety, compliance and risk management policies, programs and strategies. She has a proven ability to affect change in diverse organizational cultures through building relationships, leadership in executing work, and integrating compliance functions into governance systems and business processes.

Ms. Mathieu commenced her career with Placer Dome and progressed to increasingly senior environmental and sustainability roles with Falconbridge, NovaGold Resources, Centerra Gold, BHP Billiton, Golder Associates and NexGen Energy.

Ms. Mathieu holds a BSc (Honours) in Biology, a Masters of Science in Biology/Environmental Toxicology from the University of Saskatchewan, and an Executive MBA from the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University.

"We are very pleased that Susan has joined our Board," said Peter Barnes, Chairman of MAG. "She brings extensive operations and health, safety, environmental and community expertise to our Board, along with wide-ranging business and governance experience, all of which furthers our ability to enhance shareholder value."

About MAG Silver Corp. (www.magsilver.com )

MAG Silver Corp. (MAG: TSX / NYSE A) is a Canadian exploration and development company focused on becoming a top-tier primary silver mining company, by exploring and advancing high-grade, district scale, silver-dominant projects in the Americas. Its principal focus and asset is the Juanicipio Property (44%), being developed in Joint Venture partnership with Fresnillo Plc (56%). Juanicipio is located in the Fresnillo Silver Trend in Mexico, the world's premier silver mining camp and the Joint Venture is currently constructing and developing the surface and underground infrastructure on the property to support a 4,000 tonnes per day mining operation. Initial underground production was achieved in Q3-2020. As well, MAG has an expanded exploration program in place, targeting multiple highly prospective targets both at the Juanicipio Joint Venture and at the 100% owned Deer Trail property in Utah.