The company has appointed Ian Reid to the board as a non-executive director. He is currently a non-executive director at Canadian Western Bank, Stuart Olson and Associated Engineering and Voice Construction, as well as chairman of Fountain Tire.

Reid previously held several senior management positions at Caterpillar distributors and became president of Finning in Canada from 1997 until he retired in 2008.

Meanwhile, non-executive directors Dr Diane Garrett, William Myckatyn and Jose Leviste Jr have decided to leave the board after the next annual general and special meeting on June 1.

Garrett had been a director since 2015 and Myckatyn sat on the board for eight years. Leviste joined in 2007 and has agreed to remain with OceanaGold as a consultant.