Marrone, a former investment banker who created Yamana from scratch in 2003, growing it through a string of value-accretive acquisitions from production of 78,168 ounces in 2004 to more than 1Moz gold equivalent last year, and has appetite to build another company, he told Mining Journal. Marrone is far from thinking about retirement or resting on his laurels, which will include a change of control payment of around US$26 million.