Centaurus Metals announced two new appointments to its senior leadership team as it continues to build its in-house technical, commercial, legal and operational expertise to progress the 100%-owned Jaguar Nickel Sulphide Project in northern Brazil towards financing, development and operations. Highly-experienced international mining executive Mr. Wayne Foote has been appointed as General Manager -Operations, commencing with the Company this week, while the Company's external legal counsel, Ms. Júlia Oliveira, has joined Centaurus' in-house team in Brazil as Legal and Commercial Manager. Mr. Foote has extensive operational experience in a number of senior executive roles both in Australia and overseas, including more than 2 years living in Brazil, and brings a strong skill-set in building and leading effective, disciplined teams. He will commence with the Company in Perth leading the team undertaking the current Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) on the Jaguar Project, but intends to eventually return to Brazil as the Project moves into construction and operations. A Mining Engineer with a WA First Class Mine Manager's Certificate, Mr. Foote was until recently General Manager Major Projects with Wiluna Mining Corporation, where he helped map out the development plan for the redevelopment and expansion of the Wiluna Gold Mine in WA. Ms. Oliveira has been working with Centaurus as external counsel for several years and provided extensive legal advice and commercial support to the Company during the negotiations for acquisition of the Jaguar Project. She is an accomplished commercial lawyer with extensive experience in contractual, commercial and natural resources law ­ having worked for over a decade with several global resource companies with operations in Brazil. Prior to joining Centaurus, she worked at Veirano Advogados (2008-2017) and Fux Advogados (2017-2021), where, amongst other responsibilities, she was involved in the structuring, negotiation and formation of joint venture agreements, the negotiation of service agreements and the preparation of sale & purchase agreements, with the main focus on exploration, development and mining projects, acquisition of assets and financing of infrastructure projects.