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Glen Kuntz has served as Senior Vice President, Mine Development since November 20th, 2022 and Chief Technical and Innovation Officer from January 2022 through November 20th, 2022. He is also Vice President of Mesa Cobre, one of our subsidiaries, effective April 2022. Mr. Kuntz is a Professional Geologist and mining executive with over 30 years of experience in exploration, project development, open pit and underground mining operations and business development across a variety of commodities and mining types/methods throughout the Americas, Africa and Australia. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Kuntz was a consulting specialist geology/mining at Nordmin since March, 2018 and before that a director of exploration projects at Yamana Gold Inc. from 2015 to 2018.

Mr. Kuntz was also President and CEO of Mega Precious Metals Inc., a successful junior exploration company, from 2012 to 2015 which was acquired by Yamana Gold, and its Chief Operating Officer from 2011 to September 2012. Mr. Kuntz gained significant development/production experience in a variety of other senior positions with Runge Ltd., Placer Dome Corporation, and Rea Gold Corporation. Over the past ten years, he has managed over 200 technical studies on various projects and mines around the world. Mr. Kuntz holds a Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University of Manitoba. Mr. Kuntz currently resides in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.