- Battery Mineral Resources (BMR) announced the appointment of Julia B. Aspillaga Rodriguez to the company’s board of directors
- Aspillaga is a mining executive and partner of several mining exploration companies
- The company also announced that it has hired Giglio Barlaro Anes as the Punitaqui Mine General Manager
- Battery Mineral Resources focuses on discovering, mining and bringing to market essential battery minerals, namely cobalt, lithium, graphite, and copper
- Battery Mineral Resources Corp. (BMR) is down 8.00 per cent, trading at C$0.23 per share at 3:08 pm ET
Battery Mineral Resources (BMR) announced the appointment of Julia B. Aspillaga Rodriguez to the company’s board of directors.
Aspillaga is a mining executive and partner of several mining exploration companies. She has worked in Chile and in several other Latin American countries since the 1980’s. At present, she is Managing Partner of Andeak Global Management, a firm providing mining exploration services to several international companies.
Aspillaga has participated in the discovery and development of several mining projects, including as a partner of Dr. David Lowell in the San Cristobal gold project, in Region II, Chile at the end of the 1980’s. In the 1990’s she was manager of Bema Gold in Chile.
For the past twenty two years, Aspillaga has participated as manager and/or management advisor for several international companies, including Mineral Resource Development (Great Britain), Yorkton Securities (Canada), Endeavour Financial (Canada), Galileo Minerals (Canada), and Global Hunter Corp (Canada).
The company also announced that it has hired Giglio Barlaro Anes as the Punitaqui Mine General Manager. Barlaro, a native of Chile, is a mining engineer and holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration. He has more than 25 years of experience in the areas of operations, technical services and projects in open pit and underground mining.
Most recently, Barlaro was Mine Operations Manager at Newmont Mining’s Cerro Negro underground gold mine in Argentina. Prior to that, he was Mine Operations Manager at Lundin Mining’s Candelaria mining complex in Chile. Barlaro has also held senior operational roles with Codelco, Sociedad Química y Minera (SQM), Anglo American and SCM at mines in Chile as well as at Homestake Mining (a division of Barrick Gold) in Argentina.
BMR further announced that it has secured additional water supply for resumption operations at its Punitaqui copper mine complex. BMR is confident it has a sufficient supply of water to resume operations.
Battery Mineral Resources focuses on discovering, mining and bringing to market essential battery minerals, namely cobalt, lithium, graphite, and copper.
Battery Mineral Resources Corp. (BMR) is down 8.00 per cent, trading at C$0.23 per share at 3:08 pm ET.
