By Reuters Staff
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LONDON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Nick Mather, the chief executive officer of copper and gold miner SolGold, will retire at the end of March after 13 years at the helm, the company said in a statement.
While Solgold starts the hunt for a new CEO, its non-executive director Keith Marshall will step in as an interim chief, it added.
Reuters on Friday reported that the company had launched a process to replace Mather after nearly half of shareholders, including BHP, and Newcrest, opposed his reappointment to the board following a dispute over funding for the miner’s mammoth Ecuador copper-gold project.