Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On February 23, 2015, the Company appointed Thomas Claridge as a director of the Company.
Since July 2011, Mr. Thomas Claridge (age 46) has been the Chief Engineer for Firma Holdings Corp. (f/k/a Tara Minerals Corporation). In this capacity, he has been responsible for the overall development of mine plans, budgets, and exploration work for Firma Holdings' mining project in Idaho's Dixie mining district, including overall project development work for both underground and surface mining scenarios.
Between September 2010 and June 2011 Mr. Claridge was an engineer with Hanlon Engineering & Architecture Inc. in Tucson Arizona. While employed by Hanlon Engineering, Mr. Claridge:
o developed plans for mine and ore processing projects;
o implemented new leaching techniques and water treatment programs for mining companies;
o reviewed metallurgical test work, water treatment proposals, on-site water programs, and ore process designs for a mine in Romania;
o authored a recommendations report which is currently being implemented at the mine in Romania;
o lead a team conducting geologic, metallurgical, mine assessments, and engineering mill reviews of mines in Sinaloa, Mexico; and
o provided phased approached recommendations for ore reserve calculations and mine development.
Between January 1996 and September 2010 Mr. Claridge was a Senior Project Engineer for Freeport-McMoran Copper and Gold Inc.
For the past two years Mr. Claridge has also been an independent consultant to mining companies having projects in the United States.
Mr. Claridge received his Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Engineering from Northern Arizona University in 1995.
Following the appointment of Mr. Claridge on February 23, 2015, Francis R. Biscan, Jr., David Barefoot, and Lynda Cardno-Keeton resigned as officers and/or directors of the Company.