Pinnacle Silver and Gold Corp (PINN) has appointed of Carlos Castro Villalobos as project manager for the high-grade El Potrero gold-silver project in Durango, Mexico.
Castro is a highly experienced mining engineer, having built and operated mines for a number of companies throughout Mexico.
Jorge Ortega, P.Geo, the Qualified Person for the project and author of the NI43-101 report, continues in the role of exploration manager and in actively supervising Pinnacle’s geological team.
This team has taken more than a thousand surface and underground samples at site and is building a solid understanding of the controls on gold-silver mineralization at the high-grade low sulphidation epithermal system that comprises El Potrero.
“I am excited to be working with both Carlos and Jorge again,” said Robert Archer, Pinnacle’s chief executive.
“As former general manager of the Guanajuato mine and exploration manager for Great Panther Silver, respectively, they both played integral roles in the growth of that company. Our current mine geologist also used to work at the Guanajuato Mine during that time. As we move forward towards a production scenario at El Potrero, it is gratifying to be able to draw on their expertise in building a new team, to maximize the chance of success.”
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It’s good to see the former head honcho at Great Panther - Pinnacle chief Bob Archer himself – getting the band back together. Great Panther was built up from a standing start into a major silver and base metals producer in Mexico, and the idea with Pinnacle is to develop it along the same lines. To that end, Castro brings more than 45 years’ experience with companies such as Peñoles, Luismin, Great Panther and First Majestic. He also worked for Rochester Resources, supervising the construction of a 300 tonne per day processing plant in 7 months, which will be particularly relevant at El Potrero.