Cordoba Minerals Announces Three Key Appointments to the Board of Directors and Significant Additions to the Management Team - Seite 2

"We are delighted to have Peter, Tony and Govind join our Board," commented Mario Stifano, CEO of Cordoba. "They each bring a wealth of experience in exploring, developing and operating mines throughout the world. Their extensive leadership experience and mining knowledge will be an extremely valuable asset as we look to advance our San Matias Copper Gold Project in Colombia."

Mr. Meredith, Mr. Makuch and Mr. Friedland will replace three existing directors; Beatriz Uribe, William Katzin and Tod Turley who have decided to resign from the Board.

"The Company and the Board would like to express its sincere thanks to Mrs. Uribe, Mr. Katzin and Mr. Turley for the valuable contributions that they made during their tenures as directors with the Company," said Mr. Stifano.

Management Team Additions

In addition, Charles Forster and Luis Fernando De Angulo have been appointed Special Advisors to Cordoba's Board of Directors and CEO while Sarah Armstrong is joining Cordoba as Vice President and General Counsel.

Charles Forster, P. Geo., has more than 45 years of diversified mineral exploration experience in Canada, United States, Sub-Saharan Africa, Portugal, China and Mongolia. Mr. Forster was formerly the Senior Vice President of Exploration at Oyu Tolgoi in Mongolia for Ivanhoe Mines (now Turquoise Hill Resources) from early 2001 to June 2008. During this time, he led a team of multi-national and Mongolian geologists in the discovery and delineation of the world-class Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold porphyry deposit. The discovery of the massive, high-grade Hugo Dummett underground deposit at Oyu Tolgoi was subsequently recognized by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, which in 2004 named Mr. Forster a co-recipient of the inaugural Thayer Lindsley Medal awarded for the International Discovery of the Year.

Luis Fernando de Angulo is a sustainability, human rights and social standards professional. Mr. De Angulo started his career with the Cerrejón Coal project in Colombia where he was involved with a variety of issues in relation to community development. Most recently Mr. de Angulo was the worldwide corporate social responsibility (CSR) Director for Occidental Petroleum, with responsibility for operations in three continents. Currently, he is a founding partner of Gestión Responsible, a sustainability consultancy to the Oil and Mining Industries. Mr. De Angulo is a native of Colombia, educated in Bogota, the US (Harvard) and The Netherlands (Institute of Social Studies).