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LSE: EMED; TSX: EMD 20 March 2014 EMED Mining Public Limited ("EMED" or the "Company") APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTORS EMED Mining, the Europe-based minerals development and exploration company, is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has appointed Isaac Querub as Chief Executive Officer and a director of EMED with effect from 20th March 2014. Mr Querub has also been appointed as a Vice President of EMED's subsidiary, EMED Tartessus. In addition, the Board of Directors has appointed Alberto Lavandeira as Chief Executive Officer of its subsidiary, EMED Tartessus and a director and Chief Operating Officer of EMED with effect from 14th April 2014. As part of these management changes, Rod Halliday, who has been interim Chief Executive Officer of EMED, will step into a temporary advisory role to assist the new management. Rod Halliday and John Leach, the Chief Financial Officer of EMED, will both step down from the Board of EMED with immediate effect. Ronnie Beevor, EMED's Chairman of the Board of Directors, commented:"As we approach the final stages of permitting, there is no better team to take us through this process than Isaac and Alberto. Isaac is a proven leader with outstanding communication skills, business vision and the ability to bring the Rio Tinto project to completion, while Alberto is a mining professional of the highest calibre, who has enormous experience in delivering projects on time and on budget.""The addition of Isaac and Alberto to lead EMED in our next phase of development is a most exciting prospect. We do not believe we could have hired two more dedicated and appropriate professionals to take EMED forward.""I would like to thank Rod Halliday for his outstanding contribution to EMED. He has handled his role with great professionalism and moved the Company with diligence and consistency through a delicate period in which he advanced the permitting of the Rio Tinto project.""Rod and John have served the Board enormously, and I thank them for their time and commitment. As we focus on our main project, it is important to reinforce our Spanish leadership at the highest level." Click on, or paste the following link into your web browser, to view the associated PDF document: http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/7404C_1-2014-3-19.pdf This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange END
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