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July 29, 2025 – TheNewswire - Vancouver, British Columbia - Pampa Metals Corp. (“Pampa Metals”) (CSE:PM / FSE:FIR / OTCQB:PMMCF) is pleased to advise of the appointment of major shareholder Tony Manini as Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Paola Brewster as a Non-Executive Director. Concurrently, founding Pampa Metals’ Directors Adrian Manger and Julian Bavin have resigned.
Tony Manini is a well-known geologist-mining entrepreneur and co-founder of multiple highly successful exploration and mining businesses globally. He has been closely involved in the funding, discovery, development and sale of multiple mines and deposits in both the public and private sectors, including several highly successful junior exploration companies listed on the ASX, TSX-V and London AIM markets.
Paola Brewster is a Colombian national with extensive mining industry experience, a former Director of the Australia-Latin America business council and a former senior diplomat for the Colombian government in Australia.
Joseph van den Elsen, Pampa Metals President and CEO commented: “Board and management renewal has been a key focus as Pampa Metals evolves into a multi-asset company with a portfolio of high-quality South American porphyry copper discoveries. Along with fellow director Bryce Roxburgh, I welcome major shareholder Tony Manini and Paola Brewster to the Board at this exciting time in the Company’s evolution and thank outgoing Directors Adrian and Julian for their valuable contribution since inception. We have now assembled a high calibre, complementary board, capable of unlocking the inherent value within our portfolio.”
Incoming Chairman Tony Manini commented: “I am excited to be joining the Pampa Metals Board at this major inflection point. Through a combination of strong technical and commercial acumen, Pampa Metals has secured a compelling portfolio of high-quality copper projects along the world class Andean porphyry copper belt. The Piuquenes and Cobrasco projects have already demonstrated the potential for major copper deposits, and I strongly believe that further exploration and evaluation of these projects will deliver very significant value for shareholders. I look forward to leading the board and working with the management team during this transformational time for the Company”
Tony Manini Biography
Tony Manini is a geologist-mining entrepreneur who has been closely involved in the funding, discovery, development and sale of multiple companies, mines and deposits over 35 years. Tony’s background covers a wide range of commodities in more than 20 countries and includes technical, commercial, senior management and executive roles with Rio Tinto, Oxiana, OZ Minerals, Tigers Realm Group, and resources private equity firm EMR Capital. He is a co-founder of EMR Capital and Tigers Realm Group, a resource company incubator which listed several successful exploration and development companies including NexGen Energy (TSXV:NXE) and C3 Metals Inc (TSXV:CCCM). Tony is currently the Chairman of C3 Metals Inc. and Asiamet Resources Ltd (AIM:ARS).
Paola Brewster Biography
Paola Brewster is an international leader with two decades of experience across government relations, social performance, governance frameworks, risk management and industry technical roles.
As a former senior diplomat for the Colombian government in Australia, Paola has been a strong advocate for transparent public policy supportive of attracting and maintaining foreign direct investment. Her diplomatic leadership was instrumental in securing the first-ever Colombia-Australia Memorandum of Understanding on Mining—a landmark bilateral achievement.
Paola is the current upstream South Australian Operations Lead at ASX listed gas major Santos (market cap $25B) and has previously held management leadership positions in health and safety, fixed plant maintenance, reliability improvement and external affairs with Newcrest Mining and Catalyst Metals. Prior to these roles, Paola worked with OceanaGold Corporation and Kingsgate Limited across the Philippines, Thailand, New Zealand, and Australia advancing her passion for collaborating with impacted communities.
Her qualifications include a Master of Business Administration, Master of International Business, a Bachelor of Law, a Certificate in Applied Finance and Diplomas in Mineral Exploration Geoscience, Mining Processing and Mechanical Reliability and Maintenance.
Grant of Incentive Stock Options
The Company has granted a total of 10,500,000 stock options of a 5-year term to Directors, officers and consultants. 3,500,000 stock options are exercisable at $0.30, 3,500,000 are exercisable at $0.40 and 3,500,500 are exercisable at $0.50. Following this grant, the Company will have 14,685,000 options outstanding, equivalent to ~6.9% of the outstanding common shares.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
Joseph van den Elsen | President & CEO |jordan@pampametals.com
INVESTOR CONTACT | Jordan Webster |jorden@pampametals.com
ABOUT PAMPA METALS
Pampa Metals is a copper-gold exploration company listed on the Canadian Stock Exchange (CSE:PM), Frankfurt (FSE: FIR), and OTC (OTCQB: PMMCF) exchanges, rapidly advancing two high potential copper discoveries in the prolific Andean porphyry belts of Argentina, Colombia. The Company has been actively drilling multiple porphyry copper-gold discoveries on the Piuquenes Copper-Gold Project in San Juan Province, Argentina under an Option and Joint Venture Agreement (earning an 80% interest) signed in November 2023.
In July 2025, Pampa Metals completed the acquisition of Rugby Resources (TSXV: RUG) and its Cobrasco and Mantau copper projects in Colombia and Chile respectively. Cobrasco is a new copper discovery of potential scale in the early stages of exploration.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENT
This news release contains “forward-looking information” within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Generally, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “estimates”, “forecasts”, “intends”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate”, or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. These forward-looking statements or information may relate to Pampa Metals’ ongoing business plan, exploration and work program.
Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a number of assumptions that, while considered reasonable by management at the time, are inherently subject to business, market and economic risks, uncertainties and contingencies that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements. Such assumptions include, but are not limited to, assumptions regarding expectations and assumptions that general business and economic conditions will not change in a material adverse manner. Although Pampa Metals has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Such statements represent the current views of Pampa Metals with respect to future events and are necessarily based upon a number of assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by Pampa Metals, are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, political and social risks, contingencies and uncertainties. Risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to; changes to Pampa Metals’ current and future business plans and the strategic alternatives available thereto; and regulatory determinations and delays. Other factors which could materially affect such forward-looking information are described in Pampa Metals’ management discussion and analysis and financial statements for each of the companies most recent fiscal year end and in Pampa Metals’ other filings with the Canadian securities regulators which are available under their respective profiles on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca. Pampa Metals does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange, the TSX Venture Exchange nor the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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