Arianne Resources Inc., Saguenay, Ont., has announced the appointment of Thomas Regan Jr. as strategic consultant for the company. He was president of PCS Phosphate and PCS Nitrogen (both subsidiaries of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc.) when he retired last summer. Regan joined PCS Phosphate in 1995 as vice president, administration, following its acquisition from Texasgulf Inc., where he served as vice president of international marketing and raw material purchasing. He became president of PCS Phosphate in 1999 and president of PCS Nitrogen in 2007. Regan has a Chemical Engineering degree from Pennsylvania State University.
Arianne is a Canadian exploration company whose primary mission is to explore and develop gold, silver, and other metal deposits in Canada and Mexico. Canada Phosphate is a wholly owned subsidiary of Arianne, developing the Lac a Paul phosphate-titanium deposits. The company says these deposits should produce a high quality igneous apatite concentrate grading 39 percent P2O5 with little or no contaminant.