Prospero Silver Corp. is pleased to announce that it has appointed Mr. Ralph Rushton as Executive Vice President, Business Development of the Company. Mr. Rushton holds a B.Sc. in geology from Portsmouth University in the UK, a Master’s degree in Economic Geology from the University of Alberta, and a Certificate in Business Communications from Simon Fraser University. He has over 30 years’ experience in precious and base metals mining and exploration, much of which was gained working as a geologist in Southern Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe for Rio Tinto and Anglo American plc. For the last 13 years he has worked in business development for a number of junior resource companies and currently serves as a director on the boards of three Vancouver-based companies. He has experience in a broad range of commodities including precious and base metals, iron ore and phosphate, and has helped to raise over C$400mil through private placement financings to fund exploration and development programs in Latin America, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.