November 25, 2009 (FinancialWire) — Silver Wheaton Corp. (NYSE: SLW) has appointed George L. Brack to the company’s board. Brack is a mining industry veteran with experience in the areas of investment banking and corporate development.

Most recently Brack acted as the Managing director and Industry Head, Mining Group, of Scotia Capital where he led a team responsible for the identification, evaluation and execution of strategic mergers and acquisitions, as well as the provision of equity financing.

He spent seven years as president of Macquarie North America Ltd., an investment banking firm specializing in merger and acquisition advice. Previous to that, Brack was vice-president, Corporate Development at Placer Dome Inc., was vice-president of the investment banking group at CIBC Wood Gundy, and worked in Rio Algom’s corporate development department.

Canada-based Silver Wheaton is a silver streaming company. Its forecast for 2009 production is 16 million ounces of silver and 17,000 ounces of gold, for total production of 17 million silver equivalent ounces.

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