Friday, 12 April, 2013 - 14:55
Azure funded for drilling with $2.35m raising
Mexico-focused exploration firm Azure Minerals has secured $2.35 million from investors to finance drilling activities at its Cascada copper-gold-silver project .
Anthony Rovira
Non-executive Director / Solara Minerals
Anthony Rovira is the founding managing director of Azure Minerals.
He has more than 25 years of technical and management experience in the mining industry, as an exploration and mining geologist, and as a company administrator at board level.
Since graduating from Flinders University in South Australia in 1983, Mr Rovira has worked for both high-profile and micro capital companies including BHP, Sons of Gwalia, Barrack Mines, Zapopan, Pegasus Gold and Jubilee Mines. From 1997-2003, he was the general manager of exploration with Jubilee Mines, during which time he led the team that discovered and developed the world class Cosmos and Cosmos Deeps massive nickel sulphide deposits.
In 2000, the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies awarded Mr Rovira the Prospector of the Year Award for the discovery of the Cosmos deposit.
