Toronto, ON, Canada - December 12, 2012, Toronto, ON, Canada - Colossus Minerals, a gold and platinum exploreation company, announced the appointments of the new top management team.
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David Anthony was appointed President and COO, LuÃs Albano Tondo is the new VP of Operations and Country Manager for Brazil, and John S.M. Turner and David Garofalo were appointed to the board of directors.
Mr. Anthony, a mining engineer with more than 30 years of experience in the mining industry, will be stepping down from the Colossus Board to assume the role. He was VP and Senior Project Director at Cliffs Natural Resources (2010-12) and through senior positions over nine years at Barrick Gold Corporation in Tanzania where he was responsible for development of the Bulyanhulu, Buzwagi and Tulawaka mines. He was also Chief Operating Officer of African Barrick Gold.
Mr. Anthony has also worked for East Asia Minerals as Chief Operating Officer and Forbes & Manhattan as Senior Vice President, Mining. Mr. Anthony graduated from Queens University in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering (Mineral Processing).
Mr. Tondo is a mining engineer with twenty five years' experience working at increasingly senior levels of a number of organizations. He brings strong engineering and mineral processing expertise from developing mining projects for Rio Tinto, Kinross Gold Corporation and most recently OROSUR Mining where he was the Chief Operating Officer from 2010 to 2012.
Prior to that, Mr. Tondo worked in a variety of capacities for Kinross, overseeing the Paracatu expansion from 2005 until 2010 and the development studies for Kinross' Lobo Marte development project and the Maricunga gold mine in Chile.
Mr. Tondo has his MBA from Fundacao Dom Cabral, a MEngSc awarded by the JKMRC - University of Queensland - Australia, and a BSc Mining Engineering awarded by Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Brazil. He is also a fellow of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM), and is entitled to act as a Qualified Person according to the Canadian NI 43 101 reporting guidelines.
Mr. Turner, a Partner at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP and the Leader of its Global Mining Group will fill Mr. Anthony's vacated board seat.
Mr. Turner has been involved in many of the leading corporate finance and M&A deals in the resources sector with clients including issuers, underwriters and resource companies active throughout Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Mr. Turner's work has been recognized on numerous occasions including Best Lawyers in Canada for Natural Resources Law, The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, the Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. Mr. Turner is the recipient of the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal and is a member of both the Canadian Association and the Law Society of England and Wales.
Mr. Garofalo is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hudbay Minerals. Prior to assuming his current role two year ago, he served as Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer and a director with Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited, where he worked from 1998. ■