Sonoro Gold Corp. Announces Board Changes
recipient of the Atlantic Richfield Award from the Colorado School of Mines, an award given to the top five students in mineral economics. Mr. Diaz has an extensive background in mining development including a successful and long career with Peñoles and Luismin where he developed underground and open pit mining operations. Mr. Diaz directed the development, construction and operations of both the La Colorada project for Eldorado Gold and later the Cieneguita heap leach mine for Glamis Gold. As General Manager, he led the multinational team that developed Alamos Gold's Mulatos Mine and also directed the design, construction and start of production of Morgain Minerals' El Cairo Mine. Through his consulting, engineering design and construction services company, Interminera, Mr. Diaz led the development of Pediment Gold's, and later Argonaut Gold's, La Colorada mine and the San Antonio
gold deposit. He subsequently discovered a new gold deposit in Quiriego, Sonora State, which he is currently operating as an open-pit heap-leach mine.