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Terra Rossa Gold

About Us

Terra Rossa Gold (TSXV: TRR) is a mineral exploration company focused on advancing the drill-ready Vetas Gold Project, located in Colombia’s prolific Santander Gold District near Bucaramanga, one of South America’s most historically productive and actively explored gold regions. The Vetas Project has seen modern geophysical surveys, ~68,000 metres of diamond drilling, ~2,593 rock samples collected and is complimented by a historical mineral resource, equipping Terra Rossa with a wide range of data.

The Company is led by a highly experienced management team with decades of discovery, capital markets, and development expertise, well-positioned to unlock the value of this drill-ready, high-grade opportunity.

Our team on the Vetas site.

Management And Board Of Directors

Terra Rossa is lead by a team of seasoned mining professionals with an extensive track record of delivering success through exploration and project development.

Patrick Downey

CEO, Chairman and Director
Mr. Downey has over 30 years of international experience in the resource industry. Mr. Downey is the President, CEO and Director of Orezone Gold Corporation. Mr. Downey previously held the position...
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Latika Prasad

CFO & Corporate Secretary
Ms. Latika Prasad has been an officer and/or a director of private and publicly traded companies for more than 35 years. Previously she has been a director and/or officer of King Copper Discovery Corp...
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Mike Halvorson

Director
Mr. Halvorson has extensive experience as a board member for natural resource companies. Notable past directorships in the mineral exploration and mining sector include Chairman at Orezone Mining, Viceroy Exploration Ltd., Western Silver Inc...
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Richard Wilson

Director
Mr. Wilson brings over 20 years experience working with public junior mining issuers and has been instrumental in raising millions of dollars for exploration work. Mr. Wilson has served as a director of Baroyeca Gold...
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Tim Moody

Director
Mr. Moody has more than 30 years of experience in the mining industry including mineral exploration, resource assessment, business development, strategy and government relations. He spent 24 years...
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Patrick Robinson

Director
Mr. Robinson has acted as an investment advisor to individuals and institutions for over 30 years. Since April 2014, Mr. Robinson has served as the President of the Robinson Sauder Family Office Inc., a private firm...
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Technical Team

Terra Rossa is lead by a team of seasoned mining professionals with an extensive track record of delivering success through exploration and project development.

Doug Kirwin

Lead Strategic & Technical Advisor
Doug Kirwin is an Australian geologist with 50 plus years of international exploration experience. He commenced his career in Papua New Guinea with Anglo American in 1970 and later worked for AMAX in...
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Carlos Alberto Velásquez Zuleta

Exploration Manager
Carlos is a senior geologist with extensive experience in regional and detailed geological exploration, project evaluation, geological and resource modeling, implementation of HSE standards, and ...
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Patrick Downey

CEO, Chairman and Director

Mr. Downey has over 30 years of international experience in the resource industry. Mr. Downey is the President, CEO and Director of Orezone Gold Corporation.

Mr. Downey previously held the position of President, CEO and Director for Elgin Mining Inc. prior to its acquisition by Mandalay Resources Inc., Aura Minerals Inc. and previously Viceroy Exploration Ltd. before its acquisition by Yamana Gold Inc. in 2006 for $600 million.

Mr. Downey also served as President of Consolidated Trillion Resources Ltd. and Oliver Gold Corporation, where he negotiated their successful merger to form Canico Resource Corp., which was purchased by CVRD in 2006 for over $800 million.

Latika Prasad

CFO & Corporate Secretary

Ms. Latika Prasad has been an officer and/or a director of private and publicly traded companies for more than 35 years.  Previously she has been a director and/or officer of King Copper Discovery Corp. (formerly Turmalina Metals Crop.), Military Metals Corp., and Carmanah Minerals Corp.

Mike Halvorson

Director

Mr. Halvorson has extensive experience as a board member for natural resource companies.

Notable past directorships in the mineral exploration and mining sector include Viceroy Exploration Ltd., Western Silver Inc., Novagold Resources Inc., Pediment Gold Corporation, Esperanza Resources Corp., Fission Energy Corp. and Strathmore Minerals Corporation.

In addition, in the oil and gas business, he served on the boards of Gentry Resources Ltd. and Novus Energy Inc. 

Richard Wilson

Director

Mr. Wilson brings over 20 years experience working with public junior mining issuers and has been instrumental in raising millions of dollars for exploration work.

Mr. Wilson has served as a director of Baroyeca Gold and Silver Inc. since March 2006, and has served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer December 2011.

In addition, Mr. Wilson previously served as a director and President and CEO of Grid Battery Metals Inc. (TSXV: CELL) from December 2015 to April 2020, and a director and President and CEO of Surge Battery Metals Inc. (TSXV: NILI) from May 2020 to April 2021. 

Tim Moody

Director

Mr. Moody has more than 30 years of experience in the mining industry including mineral exploration, resource assessment, business development, strategy and government relations.

He spent 24 years with Rio Tinto, where he held the posts of Exploration Director (2005-2010) and Vice President and Director of Business Development (2010- 2015). He currently holds directorships on the boards of Mirasol Resources, Prism Resources, and Indico Resources.

Mr. Moody has a Bachelor of Science in Geology and Geophysics (Honours) from the University of New England. He is a graduate of the Senior Leadership Program from the London Business School, a graduate of the Business Leadership Development Program from the Australian Graduate School of Management and a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists.

Patrick Robinson

Director

Mr. Robinson has acted as an investment advisor to individuals and institutions for over 30 years. Since April 2014, Mr. Robinson has served as the President of the Robinson Sauder Family Office Inc., a private institutional investment firm.

In addition,since June 2018, Mr. Robinson has served as Chairman of the Board of UIT Growth Equity General Partnership Ltd., a private venture investment fund and, since October 2013, as the Chairman and Co -Founder of Arius Technology Inc., a leader in laser-based optical scanning systems. Previously, from January 2016 to September 2020,

From July 1987 to April 2014, Mr. Robinson worked as an investment advisor.

Doug Kirwin

Lead Strategic & Technical Advisor

Doug Kirwin is an Australian geologist with 50 plus years of international exploration experience. He commenced his career in Papua New Guinea with Anglo American in 1970 and later worked for AMAX in southeast Asia, Mexico and the Pacific.

From 1985 to 1995 Doug formed an independent consulting company working mostly in southeast Asia. He was executive vice president of Ivanhoe Mines from 1996 to 2012 and a founding director of Ivanhoe Mines Australia. As a member of the of the joint discovery team for the giant Hugo Dummett copper-gold deposit in Mongolia, Mr. Kirwin was a co-recipient of the PDAC Thayer Lindsley medal awarded for the most significant global mineral discovery in 2004.

Some of his exploration team discoveries and significant mineral resource expansions include a VMS base metal mine in Jalisco, Mexico, three epithermal silver-gold mines in South Korea, the Seruyung gold mine in Kalimantan, the Monywa copper and Moditaung gold mines in Myanmar and the Swan and Merlin deposits in Cloncurry, Australia and the acquisition of the Kainantu mine in PNG for K92 mining. Doug has an MSc in mineral exploration from James Cook University where he is currently an adjunct professor of geology.

Carlos Alberto Velásquez Zuleta

Exploration Manager

Carlos is a senior geologist with extensive experience in regional and detailed geological exploration, project evaluation, geological and resource modeling, implementation of HSE standards, and leadership of field and office personnel. Carlos has led greenfield and brownfield geological exploration programs in epithermal, skarn, porphyry, and laterite deposits in Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, and Nicaragua. He has proven experience in carrying out his work with constructive interaction with stakeholder groups, such as indigenous cultures and local communities.

Carlos held the position of Manager of Greenfield Exploration in Hemco Nicaragua since 2017 to 2025, where he as the responsible for leading exploration programs for precious and polymetallic minerals in targets adjacent to the current operation and at a regional level. Previously, he was Geology Manager of Brexia Goldplata Perú and Brexia Resources between 2011 and 2017, and held various leadership roles in exploration campaigns for several underground, open pit and development companies between 1997 to 2011. Carlos is Geologist from Eafit University in Colombia from 1996.

TSXV  :  TRR

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