BOARD AND MANAGEMENT
Details of Directors and Management are set out below.
Mr Thomas J. Mann – Non-Executive Chairman
Mr Mann has over 30 years’ experience in financial markets and global trade having established a global trading corporation with offices in North America and the Asia-Pacific. Mr Mann is actively involved in capital raising and strategic development initiatives for public and private companies.
He retired as the Non-Executive Chairman of ASX listed Aeon Metals Limited in November 2016.
Mr Jason M. Beckton – Managing Director
Mr Beckton graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree from Melbourne University and also a Masters of Economic Geology from the University of Tasmania. He is a professional geologist with over 30 years experience in exploration, project development, production and management in Australia and internationally.
Mr Beckton commenced his career with Pancontinental and Goldfields Ltd throughout Australia from the early 1990s before moving to a senior role with Gympie Gold in 2001. Subsequently, he was Project Manager for the Palmarejo silver gold project in Mexico during 2004. More recently, Mr Beckton was Manager - Chile for Exeter Resource Corporation and led the team in 2007 that was responsible for the commercial discovery at the Caspiche Porphyry prospect in the Maricunga Gold Copper Belt of Chile.
Mr Beckton is a Non-Executive Director of Lode Resources Ltd (ASX:LDR) and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists.
Mr Peter J. Nightingale – Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer
Mr Nightingale graduated with a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Sydney and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. He has worked as a chartered accountant in both Australia and the USA.
As a director or company secretary Mr Nightingale has, for more than 25 years, been responsible for the financial control, administration, secretarial and in-house legal functions of a number of private and public listed companies in Australia, the USA and Europe including Pangea Resources Limited, Timberline Minerals Inc., Perseverance Corporation Limited, Valdora Minerals N.L., Mogul Mining N.L., Bolnisi Gold N.L and Nickel Industries Limited.
Mr Nightingale is currently a director of ASX listed Alpha HPA Limited.
Mr John A. Levings – Executive Director
Mr Levings gained a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Tasmania in 1977 and then worked for several years as a field geologist and geophysicist for Anglo American Limited. In 1985, as Chief Geologist for Australian Development Limited (later re-named Normandy Gold Limited), Mr Levings was responsible for the discovery of the high-grade White Devil gold deposit (760,000 ounces of gold at 14.6 grams per tonne) in Tennant Creek. In 1986 Australian Development Limited was the best performing stock on the ASX on the back of this discovery. In more recent times, Mr Levings identified the Romang Island polymetallic opportunity which was acquired by Robust Resources Limited. He is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
Mr Stephen G. Gemell - Non-Executive Director
Mr Gemell holds an Honours Degree in Mining Engineering and has more than 40 years' experience in the mining industry, having worked throughout Australasia and in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania. He has been Principal of Gemell Mining Engineers since its formation in Kalgoorlie in 1984, specialising in mineral property assessment, strategic studies, valuation and operational review.
Steve is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM), a Chartered Professional (Mining), and a Member of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers. He is currently chairman of the AusIMM’s Professional Conduct Committee, was a member of the VALMIN Committee from 2010 to 2021 and a VALMIN representative to the International Mineral Valuation Committee (IMVAL), which he chaired in 2018 and 2019.
In the past three years, he held appointments as a non-executive director of Astro Resources NL from March 2018 until October 2020 and Greenvale Mining Limited from June 2019 until September 2020.
Mr Richard J. Edwards - Company Secretary
Mr Edwards graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales, is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia, is a member of CPA Australia and holds a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment from FINSIA. Mr Edwards has worked for over twenty years providing financial reporting and company secretarial services to a range of publicly listed companies in Australia with a focus on the mining sector. He is currently Company Secretary of ASX listed Alpha HPA Limited and Nickel Industries Limited.
Mr Marian Urban - Country Manager
Mr Urban graduated with a Masters of Economic Geology in Comenius University Bratislava/Slovakia. He has 10 years of geological and managerial experience in Cyprus, Spain and mostly in Slovakia. He has worked for the majority of his professional career as exploration and country manager on Slovak exploration projects focused on precious metals. He has also been employed as an exploration geologist on copper projects in Cyprus and Spain.