Board Changes

RNS Number : 9765V

Fresnillo PLC

21 April 2016

 

                                                                                                        Fresnillo plc

21 Upper Brook Street

London W1K 7PY

United Kingdom

www.fresnilloplc.com

21 April 2016

Fresnillo plc - Board Changes

Fresnillo plc (the "Company") announces that Mr Alberto Tiburcio will be appointed to the board of directors of the Company (the "Board") as an independent non-executive director with effect from 4 May 2016. Mr Tiburcio will also be appointed to the Audit Committee as a member with effect from the same date.

Mr Tiburcio worked for Ernst&Young from 1969 until 2013 and was the Chairman and CEO of Ernst&Young Mexico from January 2001 until his retirement in June 2013. He has served as statutory auditor and advisor to many prestigious Mexican companies.

The Board has also agreed that Mr Arturo Fernández, a non-executive director of the Company, will be appointed as a member and Chairman of the Health, Safety, Environment and Community Relations Committee with immediate effect.

For further information, please visit our website www.fresnilloplc.com or contact:

Fresnillo plc            London Office                                   Gabriela Mayor, Head of Investor Relations Floriana Michalowska	Tel: [phone]
Mexico City Office Ana Belem Zárate	Tel: [phone]
Bell Pottinger Daniel Thöle Aarti Iyer	Tel: [phone]

About Fresnillo plc

Fresnillo plc is the world's largest primary silver producer and Mexico's second largest gold producer, listed on the London and Mexican Stock Exchanges under the symbol FRES.

Fresnillo plc has six operating mines, all of them in Mexico - Fresnillo, Saucito, Ciénega (including the San Ramón satellite mine), Herradura, Soledad-Dipolos¹ and Noche Buena, two development projects - San Julián and the Pyrites plant, and four advanced exploration prospects - Orisyvo, Juanicipio, Las Casas Rosario & Cluster Cebollitas and Centauro Deep, as well as a number of other long term exploration prospects. In total, Fresnillo plc has mining concessions covering approximately 2 million hectares in Mexico.

Fresnillo plc has a strong and long tradition of mining, a proven track record of mine development, reserve replacement, and production costs in the lowest quartile of the cost curve for silver.

Fresnillo plc's goal is to maintain the Group's position as the world's largest primary silver company, producing 65 million ounces of silver and 750,000 ounces of gold by 2018.

¹ Operations at Soledad-Dipolos are currently suspended.

 

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