There's always that chance, but you'd think Galaxy would not have jumped on board without running it past a couple of these guys first - The Galaxy Team
Brian Talbot - Mr Talbot joins the Lepidico Board as a Non-Executive Director and shareholder representative of Galaxy Resources Ltd, which holds a 11.9% interest in the Company.
Mr Talbot is the General Manager of Galaxy’s Mt Cattlin Operations and brings over 25 years’ experience in both mine management and processing of lithium ores.
He was most recently with Bikita Minerals in Zimbabwe, where he was instrumental in expanding plant throughput and increasing metallurgical recovery.
Mr Talbot holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Mr. Vijay Mehta - P.Chem, PhD - over 40 years of experience working for numerous lithium and other specialty chemical companies, including 26 years at FMC (NYSE:FMC) as head of Product and Process Development, Great Salt Lake & Minerals / Gulf Resources (lithium operations subsequently acquired by FMC) as R&D Director, producing the whole range of lithium products including lithium carbonate, - hydroxide, - phosphate and other lithium salts and organometallic compounds.
Mr. Mehta is the author to more than 15 US Patents relating to lithium processing.
Mr. Pedro Pavlovic Zuvic - P.Eng, MSc. - over 40 years of experience as a process expert in lithium and potassium extraction (amongst other industrial minerals), working for a number of global lithium majors, including Rockwood, SQM (NYSE:SQM) and FMC (NYSE:FMC).
Formerly Managing Director of CORFO's mixed salt program, developing the lithium and potassium resources at the Salar de Atacama.
Mr. Daniel Chavez Diaz - P.Eng, MBA - 25+ years of experience in lithium brine operations, including Plant Manager, Managing Director at FMC’s (NYSE:FMC) operations in the Salar del Hombre Muerto, as well as President of Minera de Altiplano, the FMC subsidiary in Argentina.
Mr. Marcelo Bravo Veas - P.Eng. - 16 years of experience, with 12 years at SQM’s (NYSE:SQM) Salar de Atacama as Chief of Process Engineering, overseeing evaporation ponds construction and operations, as well as providing process engineering advisory to several listed companies.
Mr. Mario Portillo - P.Eng. - 40 years of experience building large scale industrial projects for Techint as Project Engineering Manager, one of the largest and oldest construction and engineering firms in Argentina. Techint was the lead construction and engineering consultant for FMC’s (NYSE:FMC) lithium carbonate plant at Salar del Hombre Muerto and their lithium chloride plant at General Guemes in Salta.
Mr. Rodolfo Garcia - P.Geo,PhD - 28 years of experience studying and modeling geology and hydrogeology of numerous projects. Mr. Garcia also assisted in the development of several brine projects, including FMC’s (NYSE:FMC) West Hombre Muerto, Lithium America’s (TSX:LAC) Cauchari, Orocobre’s (ASX:ORE) Olaroz and Enirgi’s Rincon.
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