{"id":2943,"date":"2023-04-13T08:23:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T15:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireweedmetals.com\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:57:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:57:50","slug":"ron-hochstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireweedmetals.com\/ron-hochstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Hochstein"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2943\" class=\"elementor elementor-2943\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-30382f7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"30382f7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8541deb e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"8541deb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8d53ee7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8d53ee7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Ron Hochstein<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bc2ce56 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"bc2ce56\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Director<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e256b9a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e256b9a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6c313fcb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6c313fcb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Hochstein is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Vicu\u00f1a Corp., a joint venture 50% owned by Lundin Mining and 50% owned by BHP.\u00a0 Vicu\u00f1a Corp. is advancing the Filo del Sol copper project and the Josemaria copper project located along the Chile-Argentina border.\u00a0 Prior to this position, Ron was President and CEO, Director of Lundin Gold which owns and operates the high-grade, multi-million-ounce, Fruta del Norte (\u201cFDN\u201d) gold mine in southeast Ecuador.\u00a0 Under Mr. Hochstein&#8217;s leadership, Lundin Gold acquired FDN in late 2014, completed a feasibility study, signed several agreements with the Ecuadorian Government, financed, and then constructed the mine and infrastructure on time and on budget \u2013 achieving first gold production in November 2019.\u00a0 Prior to his position at Lundin Gold, Mr. Hochstein served as Executive Chairman of Denison Mines Corp. in 2015 and as President and Chief Executive Officer from 2009 to 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Hochstein is a Professional Engineer and holds an MBA from the University of British Columbia and a B.Sc. from the University of Alberta.\u00a0 Mr. Hochstein also serves as Chair and Director of Montage Gold.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-directors"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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