TASEKO MINES LIMITED VANCOUVER, July 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ - Taseko Mines Limited (TSX: TKO; NYSE MKT: TGB) ("Taseko" or the "Company") today announced the voting results from its 2016 Annual General Meeting held Tuesday, July 12, 2016 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
A total of 145,116,902 common shares were voted at the meeting, representing 65.4% of the votes attached to all outstanding common shares. Shareholders voted in favour of all items of business before the meeting, including the election of all director nominees as follows:
Director % of Votes in Favour % Votes in Favour,
excluding Dissident Votes
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William Armstrong 83.8 98.1
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Geoffrey Burns 83.6 97.9
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Robert Dickinson 82.4 96.5
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Russell Hallbauer 83.5 97.8
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Alexander Morrison 83.6 98.0
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Richard Mundie 83.8 98.2
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Ronald Thiessen 83.5 97.7
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Linda Thorstad 83.6 97.9
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The Company notes that the dissidents (approximately 6.3% of shares outstanding) who launched and then aborted the recent proxy contest voted against all proposed resolutions, even the new Say-On-Services resolution which constructively dealt with their purported concern regarding the cost of related party services. Other resolutions which passed included the reappointment of KPMG as auditors, adoption of shareholders rights plan and a say-on-pay resolution.
Detailed voting results for the 2016 Annual General Meeting are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Russell Hallbauer
President and CEO
No regulatory authority has approved or disapproved of the information contained in this news release.
SOURCE Taseko Mines Limited
