FINANCE VIDEO: Lara Exploration - Chairman and CEO Miles Thompson Speaks at China Mining 2010
07.12.2010 | ABN Newswire
13:45 AEST Dec 7, 2010 ABN Newswire (C) 2004-2010 Asia Business News PL. All Rights Reserved.Vancouver, Canada (ABN Newswire) - FINANCE VIDEO: Lara Exploration (CVE: LRA) (PINK:LRAXF) Chairman and CEO Miles Thompson Speaks at China Mining 2010
Mr. Thompson was the original founder of Lara's Brazilian business and has been involved in mineral exploration in Brazil and South America for twenty years as a project generator, consultant and manager for both large and small companies. Mr. Thompson worked as a contractor to Lac Minerals and then Barrick between 1993 and 1996 and then worked with MRDI (now AMEC) on the privatization of CVRD in 1996. From 1997-1998 he was the Brazil representative for Newcrest and in 1999 became the Brazil representative for Gold Fields. In the same period, he provided property deals that established three Canadian-listed junior companies in Brazil.
Mr. Thompson joined Gold Fields as an employee in 2000 initially as Senior Geologist then later Manager Business Development, in which role he initiated the acquisitions of the Cerro Corona copper-gold deposit in Peru and the Bolivar Gold assets in Venezuela. Based in Johannesburg (2004) and Oxford (2005) he worked on joint ventures and acquisitions in Africa, Canada, Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Mr. Thompson is a geology graduate of the University of Bristol (UK).
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