First Mining Finance Corp. announced that Mr. Jeff Swinoga has been appointed by the company's Board of Directors to succeed Dr. Chris Osterman as the company's Chief Executive Officer effective as of January 15, 2018, and Dr. Osterman will assume the role of Chief Operating Officer of the company to focus on project development. Mr. Patrick Donnelly, the President of the Company, will continue in his current role and will work closely with Mr. Swinoga.

Mr. Swinoga is a highly accomplished mining executive with over 25 years of executive and management experience in the areas of finance, project development and project construction. Most recently, he was Chief Financial Officer of Torex Gold Resources Inc.