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| | | Lukas H. Lundin
Position: Chairman
Mr. Lundin is known for recognizing value and superior global investment opportunities in the natural resource sector. His uninhibited pursuit of highly prospective properties around the world has resulted in numerous resource discoveries, including the multi-million ounce Veladero gold discovery. Mr. Lundin has also led several companies through highly profitable business acquisitions and mergers such as Lundin Mining's $3.3 billion merger with EuroZinc Mining, and most recently the $2 billion sale of Tanganyika Oil Company Ltd. Mr. Lundin is a graduate of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. He currently sits on the Board of a number of publicly traded companies.
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| | | Tim Miller
Position: President, and C.E.O.
Mr. Miller was most recently Vice President Central and South America for Goldcorp, Inc. where he was responsible for all of Goldcorp's activities in Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Prior to that, Mr. Miller spent many years with Glamis Gold Ltd. as Vice President and Projects Manager for their Central American operations. His background also includes construction and management of major heap leach and agitated leach operations throughout South and Central America. Mr. Miller has a BSc. Chemistry from the University of New Mexico and an MBA from Webster University.
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| | | Wanda Lee
Position: Chief Financial Officer
Ms Lee is a Certified General Accountant with over 20 years experience in the mining industry. Since 1988, she has served as Chief Financial Officer and Controller/Treasurer for a number of publicly traded resource based companies. From 1992 to 1995, Ms Lee was Chief Financial Officer of International Musto Explorations until the company was sold to Rio Algom and North Ltd for $500 million. Ms Lee was also Controller/Treasurer of Argentina Gold Corp when the company was the subject of a takeover by Homestake Mining Company for $300 million. Ms. Lee has extensive experience in the accounting, auditing, tax activities and financial reporting processes of public companies, including reporting to audit committees and the preparation of financial information for various regulatory bodies. Ms Lee is currently Chief Financial Officer of several Lundin Group Companies
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| | | Richard P. Clark
Position: Director
Mr. Clark is a lawyer and practiced mining and securities law in British Columbia from 1987 to 1993 when he left the active practice of law to become President of Tombstone Explorations Co. Ltd., a mineral exploration and development company. Mr. Clark directed Tombstone through an aggressive Latin American acquisition and mineral development program until November, 1999, when he left to join Atacama Minerals Corp. Mr. Clark holds a B.A. and a LLB from the University of British Columbia. Mr. Clark is also currently President of Red Back Mining Inc. which is developing a new gold mine in Ghana. Mr. Clark has been a director of Atacama since January 1994.
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| | | Paul K. Conibear
Position: Director
Mr. Conibear has over 25 years of experience in mining projects in several African countries, North America, and a number of South American countries. His background includes 18 years of project and construction management across a diverse range of minerals projects encompassing base and precious metal, coal, uranium and potash investments. For the last 10 years he has held public company executive management and director's positions with the Lundin group of companies, most notably serving for several years as President and CEO of Tenke Mining Corp. where he was instrumental in progressing the world class Tenke Fungurume copper/cobalt project towards its current position as a major mining operation in central Africa. Mr. Conibear has been a director of Atacama since June 1997.
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| | | John Craig
Position: Director
Mr. Craig practices in the securities law area with a focus on equity financings both for underwriters and issuers with an emphasis on resource companies, TSX listing, dealings with TSX and OSC for listed public companies, takeovers and issuer bids and going private transactions. His mergers and acquisitions experience involves mergers of public companies, both listed and unlisted and acquisitions of listed companies by unlisted and private concerns. Mr. Craig is also involved with international resources in negotiation and drafting of mining, oil and gas concession agreements, joint venture agreements, operation agreements and farm-in agreements in a variety of countries. Mr. Craig received his B.A. and Llb from the University of Western Ontario and was admitted to the bar in 1973. Mr. Craig has been a director of Atacama since Septembr 2004.
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| | | Ron Hochstein
Position: Director
Ron Hochstein, P.Eng., has a wealth of experience in the mining industry. He was previously with Simons Mining Group, an internationally recognized engineering company where he was involved in the financial analysis of a number of major projects. He is much traveled, having worked in the mining industry in consulting, operations and management in the U.S., Canada, South America and Africa. He has also spent time in the oil and gas industry, working early in his career for Brenda Oil and Gas and North Canadian Oils. Mr. Hochstein has a B.Sc. in metallurgical engineering and an MBA. Mr. Hochstein is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Denison Mines Corp. and director of Fortress Minerals Corp. Mr. Hochstein has been a director of Atacama since June 2003.
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| | | M.B. (Barry) Needham
Position: Director
Mr. Needham recently retired with 40 years experience in the Mining Industry incorporating grass roots exploration/development and engineering and construction management in the development of mines and mineral processing facilities worldwide. Since the mid 1970's he was a senior executive with major Canadian international EPCM companies, Wright Engineers Limited, Fluor Daniel Wright and most recently the AMEC Mining & Metals Group. His experience is primarily related to all facets of financial and commercial management. Mr. Needham is a chartered accountant [ FCA England & Wales] and [ CA British Columbia] and is a director of YVR Airport Services Ltd., a subsidiary of the Vancouver Airport Authority. Mr. Needham has been a director of Atacama since June 7, 2006.
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| | | I. Rodrigo A. Romo
Position: Corporate Secretary
Most recently, Mr. Romo was the in-house Securities and Corporate Paralegal for Quorum Management & Administrative Services Inc. ("Quorum"), a private company, which provides management, administrative, legal, geological and other services to a number publicly traded mineral exploration companies. Mr. Romo also acted as the Corporate Secretary for two of the Quorum group of companies, namely, Emgold Mining Corporation and ValGold Resources Ltd. Prior to joining Quorum, Mr. Romo was a Securities and Corporate Paralegal with the law firm of Lang Michener LLP.
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