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Interview with the President, CEO and Director: Comstock Mining, Inc. (LODE)

Gasperis, Corrado De
Corrado De Gasperis is President, CEO and Director of Comstock Mining, Inc., a gold and silver producing mining company that is revitalizing the historic Comstock Lode District in Nevada. He brings 25 years of manufacturing, metals and mining operational and financial management, project management and capital markets experience. Previously, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of Barzel Industries Inc., formerly Novamerican Steel Inc., from April 2006 through September 2009. Barzel operated a network of 15 manufacturing, processing and distribution facilities in the United States and Canada that offered a wide range of metal solutions to a variety of industries, including construction, infrastructure development and mining. From 2001 to 2005, he served as Chief Financial Officer of GrafTech International Ltd., a global manufacturer of industrial graphite and carbon-based materials, in addition to his duties as Vice President and Chief Information Officer, which he assumed in 2000. He served as Controller of GrafTech from 1998 to 2000. From 1987 to 1998, Mr. De Gasperis was a Certified Public Accountant with KPMG LLP. As a Senior Assurance Manager in the Manufacturing, Retail and Distribution Practice, he served major clients like GE and Union Carbide Corporation. KPMG announced his admittance, as a Partner, effective July 1, 1998. He holds a BBA from the Ancell School of Business at Western Connecticut State University, with honors. Mr. De Gasperis was appointed as a Director to Comstock Mining Inc.'s board in June 2011. He also served as a Director of GBS Gold International Inc., where he was Chairman of the Audit, and Governance Committee and the Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominations and Advisory Committees. Mr. De Gasperis is a Member of the NYSE Markets Advisory Committee, the Northern Nevada Development Authority and the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada. Profile
TWST: Let’s begin with a brief overview of Comstock Mining.

Mr. De Gasperis: Comstock Mining was established 10 years ago. It spent the first seven years consolidating the land

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