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Directorate Change
Atalaya Mining Copper, S.A. announced that Dr. Michael Armitage will join the board as an independent non-executive director effective January 19, 2026, replacing Steve Scott who steps down on December 31, 2025. Dr. Armitage brings four decades of mining industry experience, including extensive expertise in resource estimation and management roles at SRK Consulting, and will serve on the Physical Risk and Audit Committees. He currently holds directorships at Central Asia Metals Plc and Tertiary Minerals plc. Disclaimer*
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n \n30 December 2025\nAtalaya Mining Copper, S.A.\n(\"Atalaya\" or \"the Company\")\nDirectorate Change\n \nAtalaya Mining (LSE: ATYM) is pleased to announce that its board of directors (the \"Board\") intends to appoint Dr Michael ('Mike') Graham Armitage as an independent non-executive director with effect from 19 January 2026. Mike will replace Steve Scott who will be stepping down on 31 December 2025.\nMike will join the Board's Physical Risk and Audit Committees.\nMike will stand for election at the Company's Annual General Meeting in 2026.\nMike has four decades of experience in the mining industry. After spending his early career working underground as a geologist in South Africa, in 1991 Mike joined SRK Consulting where he held varied roles. In addition to his technical work at SRK, producing resource estimates and managing feasibility and due diligence studies, his roles have included Managing Director and Chairman of SRK's UK practice and Chairman of SRK's Russia and Kazakhstan practices as well as SRK Exploration. He also spent six years as Chairman of SRK Global. Mike is also managing director of the Welsh gold exploration company, Sarn Helen Gold Ltd.\nMike completed his PhD assessing alternative methods of reserve estimation at the Renco Mine in Zimbabwe and has written several papers on resource and reserve estimation methodology and reporting. He spent several years as joint course co-ordinator of a MSc in Mineral Resources at Cardiff University and then as external examiner for the MSc in Metals and Energy Finance at Imperial College, University of London. He has also been a council member and Vice President of the Geological Society.\nAs a consequence of these Board changes, the structure of the Board's committees with effect from 19 January 2026 will be as follows:\n· Audit Committee - Carole Whittall (Chair), Mike Armitage, Hennie Faul\n· Remuneration Committee - Coriseo González-Izquierdo (Chair), Hennie Faul, Neil Gregson, Kate Harcourt\n· Nominations & Governance Committee - Neil Gregson (Chair), Coriseo González-Izquierdo, Kate Harcourt\n· Physical Risk Com...