Cordoba Minerals Announces Three Key Appointments to the Board of Directors and Significant Additions to the Management Team

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - April 20, 2016) - Cordoba Minerals Corp. ("Cordoba" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:CDB), is pleased to announce the appointments of Peter Meredith, Govind Friedland and Tony Makuch to its Board of Directors.

Board of Director Appointments

Peter Meredith, who will assume the role as Chairman of the Board of Cordoba, is an experienced and well respected mining executive. Mr. Meredith has been a Director of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. since 1998. Mr. Meredith is the former Deputy Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (now Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd.), where he was involved in overseeing Ivanhoe's business development and government relations. Prior to joining Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., Mr. Meredith spent 31 years with Deloitte LLP, chartered accountants, and retired as a partner in 1996. Mr. Meredith is a Chartered Accountant and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario.

Tony Makuch was the Chief Executive Officer of Lake Shore Gold prior to the recent acquisition by Tahoe Resources. Since joining Lake Shore Gold in 2008, Mr. Makuch had overseen the company's progression from exploration to annual production of approximately 180,000 ounces of gold. He is a professional engineer (Ontario) with over 25 years of management, operations and technical experience in the mining industry, having managed numerous projects in Canada and the United States from advanced exploration through production. Mr. Makuch holds a Bachelor of Science Degree (Honours Applied Earth Sciences) from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, and both a Masters of Science Degree in Engineering and a Masters of Business Administration from Queen´s University in Ontario. Mr. Makuch holds the Institute of Corporate Directors designation, ICD.D.

Govind Friedland is the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of GoviEx Uranium and a principal and co-founder of Ivanhoe Industries, the parent company of I-Pulse Inc., a hi-tech company providing innovative solutions for mining, oil & gas, and advanced manufacturing sectors based in Toulouse France. He earned his degree in Geology and Geological Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 2000 with a focus on Exploration Geology. Mr. Friedland also was the former Business Development Manager for Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. based in China and has significant experience in emerging markets.