Board
ROBERT H DUFFIN – EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
 BSc (Hons), MSc (Hons), Grad Dip Mgt, FAusIMM
Bob Duffin is a company director and consultant to the mining industry, specialising in mining investment analysis, valuations and the provision of mining sector investment advice. He has over 35 years experience in resource exploration and project assessment, including over 20 years experience in mining investment analysis, project valuations and assessments of fair value of securities.
Bob has held senior positions in the exploration divisions of Peko Wallsend Ltd and MIM Holdings Ltd, then two of Australia's largest mining companies, and is a former managing director of Austirex International Ltd, an international resource exploration consulting and contracting firm. He has lived and worked in mining communities, including periods in Kalgoorlie in Western Australia and Mount Isa in Queensland, where he worked on exploration programs for a number of commodities, including gold, copper, uranium, base metals and iron ore. He has also worked with three stockbroking firms and was head of research at one of Australia's leading resource sector brokers in the 1980s.
Bob is a director of Ferrowest Ltd. He was a non-executive director of Centennial Coal Company Limited from 1992 until 2007. He is a former director of the UK resources investment company Europa Minerals Group PLC and a former director of a number of other mining and resources companies including Austmin Gold NL, Burmine Limited and Midwest Corporation Limited.
HEATH L ROBERTS – EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND GENERAL COUNSEL
 Dip Law (SAB), Grad Dip LegP (UTS)
Heath practiced as a commercial solicitor before specialising in corporate advice, company secretarial practice and fund raising, with a focus on the resource and mining sectors.
Heath has had over 13 years broad commercial experience with a range of ASX listed companies including WCP Resources Ltd, Michelago Ltd, Intec Ltd, Gloucester Coal Ltd and other unlisted resource and mining groups. He has participated as an adviser and principal in a number of ASX listings and corporate reconstructions. He was Company Secretary of the Sydney Kings basketball company in 2001. He has a strong corporate background and significant experience in project assessment and acquisition, transaction negotiation, capital markets and corporate administration.
GARY J JONES – TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
 BSc MAusIMM MSEG
Gary Jones is a geologist with over 40 years professional experience in mineral exploration and resource and reserve estimation for various type of mineral deposits including porphyry copper-gold and epithermal gold. He is Managing Director of Geonz Associates Ltd, a leading New Zealand firm of consulting geologists, and has been an independent consultant to the mining industry for the past 24 years during which time assignments have been completed in many parts of the world including Australia, Indonesia, North and South America, Canada and New Zealand.
Prior to setting up his own consultancy Gary worked as an exploration geologist for Geopeko for 15 years in various parts of Australia including 12 years in central New South Wales where he established and managed a new exploration operation for Geopeko. During this time he supervised numerous base and precious metal projects throughout the Lachlan Fold Belt and parts of the New England region and is credited with the discovery of the Northparkes porphyry copper-gold deposits. Following the initial discoveries at Goonumbla, Gary also had a major input into the pegging of a large block of exploration licences in the Lake Cowal region. He planned and supervised the initial regional exploration programs that ultimately led to the discovery of the 4.4 million ounce Cowal porphyry gold deposit. Early in his career Gary worked on iron ore exploration and mining activities in the Northern Territory.
LEN DEAN – NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
 BSc (Met)
Len Dean has had a 40 year career in the resources sector, with particular emphasis in the global iron ore industry. He spent 36 years with BHP, finishing in 2000 as Vice President, Coal and Iron Ore Marketing. During his period with BHP he was General Manager, Marketing for BHP Iron Ore in Perth for 8 years, he managed iron ore mining operations at BHP’s Yampi Sound mine, and he lived and worked at BHP’s (now OneSteel’s) Whyalla works for 3 years. He was Managing Director of Sesa Goa Limited, India’s largest private sector exporter of iron ore, from 2003 to 2006. More recently, he has been an iron ore consultant with a wide client base including Orinoco Iron (Venezuela), Mitsui Iron Ore Development, CVRD (Brazil) and Mineral Enterprises Limited (India).
ROBERT L RICHARDSON – NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
 BSc (Physics), BE (Hons), MAusIMM, MASEG
Bob Richardson has 40 years experience in mineral exploration management, geophysics and exploration technology. His career includes 15 years with the Peko Wallsend Group as Chief Geophysicist and then Exploration Manager. He was a founder in 1976 and Managing Director of Austirex International Ltd that became a major international airborne geophysical contractor.
Bob has been at the forefront of mineral exploration in many parts of Australia for his entire career and has provided essential input into a number of important mineral discoveries. In 1987 he co-founded PlatSearch NL, where currently he is Managing Director. He is also a non-executive director of Crossland Uranium Mines Ltd, Eastern Iron Limited and Silver City Mining Ltd.
LIM SEE YONG – NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
 BAA (Singapore)
Lim See Yong is General Manager and Director of Xin Sheng International Private Limited, a trading company related to Tangshan Xingye Industrial and Trade Group Corporation, an investor in raw materials for the steel industry. He spent 11 years with NatSteel Trade International, a Singapore mill that produces bars and wire rods from scrap. He was NatSteel’s chief representative in China for 7 years from 1995. From 2002 to 2006 he was in charge of selling iron ore and steel products to China, and exporting semi and finished steel products to South East Asian markets. See Yong lives in Singapore.
DENNIS MUTTON – NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
 BSc (Hons), Grad Dip Mgt, JP, FAIM, MAICD
Dennis Mutton is a management consultant specialising in natural resource management, primary industries and resources, regional growth initiatives and business-government relations. From 1997 to 2002 he was Chief Executive of the South Australian Department of Primary Industries and Resources. He has a portfolio of directorships including Bio Innovation SA, and is Chair of the Council of Rural Research and Development Corporations. He is a former member of the Senior Management Council of the South Australian Government, a former Director of Mines, and a former Director of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation. Dennis lives in Adelaide.
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