{"id":1197771,"date":"2020-07-24T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1030716"},"modified":"2020-07-24T08:00:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T13:00:58","slug":"mining-people-benz-mining-equinox-gold-far-resources-fiore-marimaca-copper-meridian-orosur-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1197771","title":{"rendered":"MINING PEOPLE: Benz Mining, Equinox Gold, Far Resources, Fiore, Marimaca Copper, Meridian, Orosur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Management moves announced this week:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Graeme Currie<\/strong> is now an advisor to Adamera Minerals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Andrey Shamis<\/strong> has been appointed interim CEO of Angus Ventures,<\/strong> succeeding Patrick Langlois<\/strong> in this role. Shamis joined the company\u2019s board in 2017.<\/p>\n

Miloje Vicentijevic<\/strong> has resigned from his role as Benz Mining\u2019s<\/strong> president and CEO but will remain on the board. Mathew O\u2019Hara<\/strong>, a director of the company, will act as interim CEO.<\/p>\n

Alexandre Belleau<\/strong> has been named COO of Champion Iron<\/strong> \u2013 Belleau joined the company in 2016 and most recently held the general manager of projects and innovation role, leading the efforts around the mine\u2019s proposed phase II expansion project.<\/p>\n

Doug Reddy<\/strong> will transition to the COO role with Equinox Gold<\/strong> at the start of September, once Attie<\/strong> Roux<\/strong>, the company\u2019s current COO, retires.<\/p>\n

John Gammack<\/strong> has been appointed CEO and president of Far Resources<\/strong>, replacing Toby Mayo<\/strong> who will be moving into the position of VP technology development. Gammack will also serve on the company\u2019s board.<\/p>\n

Steve Cashin<\/strong> has joined Fiore Gold<\/strong> as director of technical services. Cashin is the former operations manager at Barrick\u2019s<\/strong> Pueblo Viejo operation in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n

Hayden Locke<\/strong> has been appointed president of Marimaca Copper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Adrian McArthur<\/strong> is now the CEO, president and a director of Meridian Mining<\/strong> with Gilbert Clark<\/strong> stepping down from the interim CEO role; Clark will remain a director of the company.<\/p>\n

Brad George<\/strong> is now the CEO of Orosur Mining<\/strong>, succeeding Ignacio Salazar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Alex Tsakumis<\/strong> is now the VP of investor relations with Prime Mining<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Russell Starr<\/strong>\u00a0is now the president and CEO of\u00a0Trillium Gold Mines<\/strong>, with\u00a0David Velisek<\/strong>\u00a0resigning as CEO and\u00a0James Lenec<\/strong>\u00a0stepping down as president. Velisek will remain on the company\u2019s board while Lenec will serve as VP of business development and as a director.<\/p>\n

Board changes include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andy Wallace<\/strong> has joined the board of Allegiant Gold<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Carsten Korch<\/strong> has been named a director of Asante Gold<\/strong>, following the passing of Florian Riedl<\/strong>\u2013Riedenstein<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Ron Hall<\/strong> and Carlos Escribano<\/strong> have stepped down from the board of Benz Mining<\/strong>. Escribano will continue to act as the company\u2019s CFO.<\/p>\n

Newman Wayne Reid<\/strong> has joined the board of Leocor Ventures<\/strong>, following Charanjit Hayre\u2019s<\/strong> resignation.<\/p>\n

Peter Weidmann<\/strong> has retired from Meridian Mining\u2019s<\/strong> board.<\/p>\n

Euler De Souza<\/strong> is now on the board of Nippon Dragon Resources<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Matthew Quinlan<\/strong>, the interim CFO of Trevali Mining<\/strong>, has been appointed to the board of Noront<\/strong> Resources<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Thomas Masney<\/strong> is now a director of Orosur Mining<\/strong>, replacing HD Lee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Elodie Grant Goodey<\/strong>\u00a0has joined the board of\u00a0SolGold<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

(This article first appeared in the Canadian Mining Journal)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Key moves in the mining industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2648,369],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1197771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197772,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197771\/revisions\/1197772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1197771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1197771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1197771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}