Tiernan Strengthens Management Team, Hires Mario Marchese as Country Manager, Chile
Tiernan Strengthens Management Team, Hires
Mario Marchese as Country Manager, Chile
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 26, 2026) -
Tiernan Gold Corp. (TSXV: TNGD)
("Tiernan" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mario Marchese as Country
Manager, Chile, effective June 1, 2026.
In this role, Mr. Marchese will be Tiernan's senior in-country leader and will be responsible for
establishing and running the Company's Chilean organization, leading local stakeholder and regulatory
relationships, coordinating environmental and regulatory permitting processes, and supporting the
engineering and technical workstreams required to advance the Company's flagship Volcan Gold
Project in Chile's Maricunga Gold Belt.
"Mario brings the Chilean project leadership Volcan needs at this stage: practical project-
development experience, clear judgment on permitting and stakeholder engagement, and the ability
to build the local platform around the work now underway,"
said Fausto Di Trapani, President and CEO,
"His appointment gives Tiernan senior in-country leadership as we advance Volcan through
environmental baseline work, community and stakeholder engagement, permitting and engineering."
The appointment follows the recent addition of James Connolly as Executive Vice President, Projects
and is part of Tiernan's planned build-out of the leadership team required to advance Volcan through its
next phases of work.
About Mario Marchese
Mario Marchese is a Chilean mining and project-development executive with more than three decades
experience across mining, energy, engineering, infrastructure, project development, environmental
permitting, stakeholder engagement, and business development in Chile and international markets.
Most recently, Mr. Marchese served as Project Director of the HNH Green Ammonia project in southern
Chile, a large-scale development project where his responsibilities included stakeholder relationships,
environmental permitting, engineering design, construction planning, capital and operating cost
optimization, and social-license work. Previously, he held senior roles with Codelco's Chuquicamata
Division, Fluor, Hatch, Bechtel, Ausenco and Codelco Tech.
Mr. Marchese brings experience in Chilean project delivery aligning directly with Tiernan's immediate
priorities: establishing an effective Chilean operating platform, keeping the environmental, consultation
and engineering workstreams moving together, and supporting disciplined project definition at Volcan.
On behalf of Tiernan Gold Corp.
Fausto Di Trapani, CEO and Director
For further information visit tiernangold.com or contact:
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Toll-free phone: +1 (888) 926-2591
About Tiernan Gold Corp.
Tiernan Gold Corp. is focused on the disciplined de-risking of the Volcan Gold Project strategically
located in the Atacama Region of Chile, on the Maricunga gold belt, a jurisdiction that has a long-
established history of mining with a number of operating mines, new mines under construction and major
projects being developed.
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