Vancouver, British Columbia / December 6 2016 / TheNewswire - Centenera Mining Corporation ("Centenera" or the "Company") - (TSXV: CT, OTCQB: CTMIF), announces the appointment of Mr. Tyler Caswell P.Geo., as Exploration Manager.
Mr. Caswell is a Professional Geologist with more than 10 years' experience with exploration for a variety of mineral deposit types, including epithermal gold, porphyry copper, iron oxide copper-gold, skarn, sedimentary-hosted base metals, and volcanic-hosted massive sulphide. He has experience in Asia, North America and South America. Mr. Caswell has spent most of his career with mid-tier mining companies, most recently MMG Limited, where he was focused on resource expansion and exploration at the Las Bambas porphyry / skarn deposit cluster in southern Peru.
"We are delighted to welcome Tyler to the technical team at Centenera Mining," stated Keith Henderson, Centenera's President and CEO, "Tyler's experience in South America and his exposure to quality assets like Las Bambas are expected to be invaluable to us as we seek to acquire additional exploration projects throughout Argentina."
The Company also announces that it has granted 400,000 stock options to various directors, officers, employees and consultants of the Company and its affiliates. The options are exercisable by the holders to purchase common shares of the Company on or before December 5, 2017 at a price of $0.25 per share. As of the date of this news release, the Company has 4,175,000 stock options issued and outstanding under its Stock Option Plan, equal to 7.4% of the Company's issued and outstanding common share capital.
About Centenera Mining Corporation
Centenera is a mineral resource company trading on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol CT and on the OTCQB under the symbol CTMIF. The Company is focused 100% on Argentina with precious metals assets, a pegmatite asset and extensive exploration datasets. The Company's strategy is to acquire more high-quality mineral resource assets in Argentina.