 Whitehorse Gold Corp has announced the appointment of Alex Zhang, a professional geoscientist, as a director of the company and also revealed a change of chairman for its board. The company noted that Zhang has more than 30 years of experience in mineral exploration and has worked with Eldorado Gold Corporation, African Mining Corp, Sino Gold Mining Ltd, Silvercorp Metals Inc TSX:SVM, AMEX:SVM, and most recently New Pacific Metals TSX:NUAG, NYSE:NEWP Corp. It pointed out that he has supervised exploration activities of multiple major gold projects and silver-lead-zinc polymetallic projects in China, Canada and Bolivia at various stages from exploration through development to production with roles as senior exploration geologist, senior resource geologist, exploration manager, chief geologist and vice president of exploration. 