Rio
Alto Mining Limited (the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:RIO - News; OTCQX:RIOAF)(BVLAC:RIO)(DBFrankfurt:MS2)
announces that Mr. Feisal Somji has resigned as a
director and officer of the Corporation.
Mr.
Somji served as the President and Chief Executive
Officer of the Corporation from May 2007 to June 2010 and most recently as
the Corporation's Vice President Corporate Development. Among other successes,
Mr. Somji was principally responsible for
identifying, negotiating and concluding on behalf of the Corporation its June
2009 acquisition of a private mining company which held the rights to La
Arena Project in north central Peru.
The
Board would like to thank Mr. Somji for his
dedication and service to the Corporation over the past number of years and
wishes him every success in his future endeavours.
To
learn more about Rio Alto Mining Limited, please visit: www.rioaltomining.com
or Rio Alto's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com.
ON
BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF RIO ALTO MINING LIMITED
Klaus
Zeitler,