Brazil Minerals, Inc. announced that Mr. Paulo Roberto Amorim dos Santos Lima a geologist with more than 40 years of field experience and author of two mining books, has joined its management team as Vice President and Head of Geology, based in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Mr. Amorim worked for Vale S.A. for over 22 years where he led the exploration and acquisitions for Vale's Precious Metals Division and headed gold and other precious metal projects and evaluations of mineral deposits in Brazil and other countries. Prior to Vale, Mr. Amorim worked for 8 years for CBMM, Companhia Brasileira de Metalurgia e Mineração, where he was the Chief Geologist for various projects in several different minerals.

Previously, he was a geologist with the Brazilian nuclear company, Industrias Nucleares Brasileiras, and also with the Mineral Resource Department of Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Amorim has experience and expertise in the management and development of mineral projects, and evaluation and negotiations of mineral opportunities in Brazil and other Latin America countries. His experience is particularly strong in gold, titanium, vanadium, phosphate, rare earths, iron, nickel, niobium, uranium, tantalum, columbium, and fluorite.