Azure Minerals Ltd (ASX: AZS) Share Price and News

Tony Rovira has over 30 years technical and management experience in the mining industry, as an exploration and mining geologist, and as a company executive at Board level. Since graduating from Flinders University in South Australia in 1983, Tony has worked for companies both large and small, including BHP, Barrack Mines, Pegasus Gold and Jubilee Mines. From 1997-2003 Tony was the General Manager of Exploration with Jubilee Mines, during which time he led the team that discovered and developed the world class Cosmos and Cosmos Deeps nickel sulphide deposits in Western Australia. In the year 2000, the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies awarded Tony the Prospector of the Year Award for these discoveries. Tony joined Azure Minerals as the inaugural Managing Director in December 2003, held the position of Executive Chairman from June 2007 until December 2011, then reverted to his current position of Managing Director. Tony is responsible for the decision in 2020 to change the Companys focus from precious and base metals in Mexico to lithium, nickel and gold in Western Australia. The company has had exploration success at the Andover Project where a vast array of lithium-rich pegmatites have been discovered, as well as defining two nickel-copper-cobalt sulphide deposits. He held Former Directorship in Ionic Rare Earths Limited.

Mr Thomas is experienced Director and Corporate Executive with domestic and international resources management experience. In addition, Mr Thomas spent 15 years in the financial services sector with executive roles in corporate stockbroking, investment banking and banking. He has more than 35 years of mining and exploration industry experience covering a broad range of commodities from precious, base and battery metals, bulk and industrial minerals, diamonds plus oil and gas. He holds Other Current Directorship as Non-Executive Chairman in Peregrine Gold Limited & Non-Executive Director Lanthanein Resources Limited. He held Former Directorships with Paterson Resources Ltd & Auris Resources Ltd

Ms Guo is corporate executive with more than 20 years' experience in the mining and resources sector. During Ms. Guo's earlier career with PricewaterhouseCoopers, she held senior roles in transaction services, with a focus on the mining and resources sector. In addition, she is an experienced public and private company director and executive and has run her own investment platform focused on Australian and international mining and resource projects for the past decade. Ms. Guo brings experience across mining project evaluation, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, project development and corporate finance, and is currently the Managing Director of Zuleika Gold Limited and a Non-Executive Director Azure Minerals Limited. She holds other directorship in Zuleika Gold Limited & CZR Resources Limited.

Mr Plaggemars was appointed a director on 26 November 2019 and is an experienced company director with a background in corporate finance, corporate strategy and governance. He has served on the Board of Directors of many listed and unlisted companies in a variety of industries including mining, agriculture, shipping, construction and investments. This includes the Board of Delphi Unternehmensberatung AG, a major shareholder of Azure. Mr. Plaggemars is fluent in English and German. He holds Current Directorship in Altech Chemicals Limited, Spartan Resources Limited, GeoPacific Resources Ltd, Kin Mining NL, PNX Metals Limited, Wiluna Mining Corporation, Marna Beteiligungen AG, 2invest AG and Altech Advanced Materials AG. He held Former Directorship in The Grounds Real Estate Development AG, CARUS AG, Biofrontera AG, South Harz Potash Limited and 4basebio AG.

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