Scorpio Mining Corporation announced that Pierre Lacombe has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer, effective April 22, 2013, and will also continue to serve as a director of the corporation. Peter Hawley will resign as interim President and CEO of the corporation when Lacombe assumes his new position and remain a director of the corporation. Lacombe has over 28 years' experience in mining and mineral processing, including significant experience working in Latin America.

Lacombe is a registered professional mining engineer (École Polytechnique, Montréal, Quebec) and is fluent in French, English and Spanish. Lacombe is joining the corporation from his current position of Vice-President, Project Development of Pershimco Resources. Prior to this, Mr. Lacombe spent 12 years as Principal Process Engineer for the international consulting firm, AMEC, contributing to project engineering for companies like Barrick, Kinross, Xstrata, BHP, Teck, Northgate, Aur Resources and Yamana on world-class projects in both North and South America.

In addition, during this period Lacombe was involved with the metallurgical testing and design work that led to the construction of Scorpio Mining's Nuestra Señora processing plant.