Board of
Directors

Andrew Richards – Executive Chairman

Mr Richards is a geologist with over 30 years of experience in the international mining industry which included company management and project finance. He has worked at a senior level in both production and exploration over a wide variety of areas and commodities and also undertaken technical reviews, project audits and monitored project construction. He is a member of the AusIMM, AIG and SEG. Mr Richards has worked extensively with gold, base metals, rare earths and industrial minerals in Australasia, Asia, Africa and South America. He is and has been on the boards of several listed companies on ASX and AIM and was previously Managing Director and CEO of two ASX listed companies operating in China.

John Cathcart – Non-Executive Director

Mr Cathcart has 30 years experience in mining and mining investment analysis and extensive experience in the resources sector at a technical, corporate and financial level, working in gold, copper and nickel at several major operations. He made the successful transition to the financial sector and broking in 1994 where he established a very strong reputation with several brokers including Baillieu’s, BT, HSBC and CommSec before running the Resources portfolio at Thorney Investments.

Mr Cathcart remains an investment manager at Thorney as well as a director of the recently established stockbroking firm Rawson Lewis.

Beau Nicholls – Non-Executive Director

Mr Nicholls is a geologist and project manager with over 25 years of international experience and has worked in over 20 countries including Australia, Eastern Europe, West Africa and South America and established a solid technical and practical base to operate in challenging environments.

Mr Nicholls has a wide technical and corporate management experience at a senior level in gold exploration and mining for both mining groups and international consulting groups. He spent 8 years working in Brazil and speaks Portuguese fluently.

Adrian Goldstone – Non-Executive Director

Adrian Goldstone has in excess of 35 years’ experience in the resources industry holding executive roles over much of that time and has more recently become involved in specialist investment and financing for the resources industry. He currently holds the position of Managing Director, Technical at Dundee Goodman Merchant Partners. He brings expertise and successful experience in Project Management and associated governance processes, environmental management, and social licence in the industry and has a strong focus on creative business solutions meeting the expectations of multiple stakeholders.

From 2006 and 2014 he was the Executive Vice President responsible for Dundee Precious Metal’s major projects in Europe and Africa where his accountabilities included Sustainable Business Development, Executive Project Management, Smelter Oversight, Environmental Management, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Projects he oversaw included mining projects, a smelter emissions upgrade and the smelter acid plant in Tsumeb, Namibia and was responsible for maintaining production at the site while delivering the upgrades. He was responsible for government relations and frequently navigated projects through regulatory and political process at cabinet level.

Prior to this, Mr. Goldstone was Partner and Managing Director at Kingett Mitchell Ltd. for a decade. Kingett Mitchell was a diversified resource and environmental consultancy based in New Zealand. He built a successful international minerals industry consultancy during his tenure and worked on projects in New Zealand, Australia, North America and many other countries around the world. Golder Associates acquired Kingett Mitchell in 2006. Additionally, Mr. Goldstone spent 10 years in various roles with Cyprus Minerals and Cyprus-Amax in New Zealand, Australia and the US in operational roles and then in the corporate and international groups.