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Chris van Wijk

Executive Chairman

Chris is an experienced geologist specialising in project evaluation and project generation. Chris brings a wealth of relevant experience including base metal and gold exploration in Africa, Europe, the Americas and Australia as well as joint venture management and project evaluation for major mining companies including BHP, IAMGOLD, First Quantum Minerals and Fortescue Metals Group. Chris has a Master of Science in Ore Deposit Geology from the University of Western Australia and is a member of the AUSIMM.

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Kevin Wilson BSc, ARSM, MBA

Non-Executive Director

Kevin was appointed to the Board on 23 March 2018. He has over 30 years’ experience in the minerals and finance industries, including as Managing Director of Leviathan Resources, a Victorian gold mining company. Over the last 8 years Kevin was Managing Director of Rey Resources, an Australian energy exploration company. He has prior experience as a geologist with the Anglo American Group in Africa and North America and as a stockbroking analyst and investment banker with CS First Boston and Merrill Lynch in Australia and USA.

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Chris Knee

Non-Executive Director

Chris is a qualified accountant and has over 15 years’ broad experience in a multi-national chartered accounting firm and a number of senior finance roles across the resources industry with projects in Africa, Canada and Central Asia. Chris has a range of experience across a variety of disciplines including joint ventures, international tax structuring, accounting and compliance, commercial contracts, project divestments and acquisitions.

John Dobe

Chief Geologist

John is a discovery-driven geologist with 30 years of global exploration experience across a wide variety of deposit styles including orogenic Au, Cu-Au porphyry, epithermal Au, sediment-hosted Cu, SEDEX, IOCG, and VHMS deposits. John spent more than 10 years with the Barrick Global Generative Team and was a co-founder of Footprint Resources, which acquired and managed a portfolio of PNG projects and progressed the Kusi Au-skarn discovery through to a resource with LCL Resources.

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