Current: OreSource – A geological consultancy established in 2020
Clients include:
Charger Metals NL: Managing Director
Mount Ridley Mines Limited: Technical Consultant
Prior to 2020
Managing Director of Pioneer Resources Limited from IPO for 16 years.
Exploration Manager at Heron Resources Limited for 8 years
Senior Geologist at the Gidgee Gold Mine for 9 years (Cyprus-Australian Resources)
Discovery team at Radio Hill Nickel Mine (nickel sulphides) SAMIM Australia
Qualifications and Affiliations
B Sc (University of Canterbury, NZ) 1978
Graduate Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD)
Member Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (MAusIMM)
Member
Australian Institute of Geoscientists (MAIG)
Managing Director Pioneer Resources Limited (mid 2003 (Pre-IPO) – January 2020, 16 years)
Mineral exploration and mining company. Good discovery record including Australia’s first caesium mine.
- Managed IPO 2003
- Raised in excess of $40 million over 16 years
- Negotiated >10 farm-out joint ventures and royalty agreements, including with North Star Resources, Novo Resources, Jubilee; and an earn-in JV in Canada
- Improved tenement portfolio, exploration processes and OHS systems
- Discovered Mt Jewell Gold Deposits near Kalgoorlie WA. Sold for $8.0 million
- Acquired the Blair Nickel Mine, improved exploration model, ‘proof of concept’ drilling discovers new Ni$ deposit.
- Discovered the Sinclair Caesium Deposit, mined 2018-2019 on budget, with DSO offtake agreement.
- Discovered the Dome North Spodumene Deposits
- Pioneering user of the pXRF for soil geochemistry and grade control
Exploration Manager (8 years)
Heron Resources Limited Mid 1997 to Mid 2003
Archaean Nickel Laterite Acquisition, Exploration and Delineation, Kalgoorlie
- Exploration Manager from shortly after IPO
- Acquisitions and drilling of the >1 billion tonne nickel laterite resource (North Kalgoorlie Project)
- Native Title negotiations to secure Mining Lease approvals
- Assisted with spin-out of Avoca Resources Limited
- Managed spin-out of Pioneer Resources Limited
Exploration Manager (3 years)
St Francis Mining NL October 1994 to February 1997
Archaean Gold Exploration and Mining Coolgardie, (and briefly in Botswana)
Senior Professional
Gidgee Gold Mine Senior Mine and Exploration Geologist 1986 – mid 1994 (9 years)
(Archaean Gold Exploration Management, Open pit mining, Reserves and Reconciliations for 9 gold open pits) (Resigned when 500,000oz poured)
Junior Professional ( (4 years)
SAMIM – Geologist 1982 – 1984
Archaean Copper-Nickel: Discovery team for the Radio Hill nickel mine. Mt Sholl, Munni-Munni etc)
Proterozoic Lead – Kimberley;
Whim Creek Consolidated NL- Jnr GeologIst 1980-1982
(Proterozoic Tungsten Skarn – Gascoyne; Archaean Cold – Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia)