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Rabat – Mohammed Benharref on Thursday joined the board of directors of Trigon Metals, a Toronto-based copper production firm.
Jed Richardson, president and CEO of Trigon Metals, welcomed Benharref’s new appointment as part of the mining company’s ambition to “become the leading mid-tier copper producer in Africa’s best jurisdictions.”
Trigon Metals noted in a press release that it “has granted Benharref 750,000 stock options,” adding that “the options have an exercise price of $0.15 and will expire five years from the date of grant”
“The grant of options remains subject to the approval of the [Canada’s] TSX Venture Exchange,” the statement indicated.
Benharref is a founding partner of Technomine Africa, a Moroccan mineral prospecting company acquired by Trigon Metals in 2020. The Moroccan firm is responsible for Triagon’s Silver Hill copper-silver-cobalt exploration project operating in the Imiter and Zgounder mines in the Anti-Atlas region.
The latest reports on the company’s drilling operations have confirmed “promising results” for its operations in Morocco. “New areas of copper production are important [to offset the] production declines from the Andean resources on which the world has come to depend for the last 30 years,” Richardson said in May 2021.
Benharref’s over 30 years of geological experience in mineral exploration, geosciences, and geological mapping is expected to consolidate Trigon Metals’ operations in the North African country.
Benharref holds a Ph.D. in structural geography. He has worked for Morocco’s mining and engineering giant Managem before founding CAP Resources, a Moroccan-based mining services company that serves large-scale projects on behalf of the government as well as major Moroccan mining companies.
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