Wheeler Resigns As CdA Mines CEO

Coeur d’Alene Mines Corp. announced this morning that it named Mitchell J. Krebs as its new president and CEO and Robert E. Mellor as its board chairman. Dennis Wheeler, the Coeur d’Alene-based company’s CEO for the past 25 years, resigned on July 11. He will continue to serve the company as a consultant through July of 2012. Krebs previously served as senior vice president and CFO at Coeur. He has been with the company since 1995. Mellor has been a company director since 1998 and previously was the independent lead director for the company/ Journal of Business . Full Coeur press release here .

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