The Board of Directors of Auriant Mining AB (publ.) appointed Petr Kustikov as Chief Operating Officer with effect from 1 December 2020. Petr has been Head of Project Development at Auriant since 2016, and played a leading role in the construction of the successful CIL plant at the company’s Tardan mine. He is an experienced mine manager, having worked in that role at both Oxus Gold and Orsu Metals. Petr graduated from Navoi State Mining Institute with a degree in Mining Engineering and has completed his Master in Business Administration from the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow. Petr has been a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy since 2014. Immediately prior to joining Auriant he was a Leading Consultant at SRK Consulting (Russia) based in Moscow.