Peter Newcomb Executive Director

Experience

Mr Newcomb has over 45 years professional and commercial experience working in a number of industries and locations including London, Scotland, Singapore and Perth. The majority of his experience over the last twenty years has been in the Resources industry predominantly in Western Australia.

Qualifications

Mr Newcomb is a former Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

Terence Weston Non-Executive Director

Terence is a metallurgist with 30 years’ experience as a consultant in the mining industry and holds the Degree of Bachelor of Applied Science (Metallurgy) from University of Melbourne.

After graduation in 1973 he joined Peko-Wallsend (later North Mining) working as Production Metallurgist at the gold/copper operation at Mt Morgan, Queensland, in 1976 transferring to the Scheelite mine on King Island achieving the position of Deputy Manager/Metallurgical Superintendent. In 1989 Terry transferred to North Mining’s office in Perth to oversee North’s gold operations in W.A. and assist in the design and construction of the Kanowna Belle gold mine.

After twenty years working for North Mining, he ventured out as an independent Metallurgical Consultant and during the next thirty years consulted to both big and small mining companies. These included Harmony Gold Australia (Jubilee Gold operation) Harmony Gold PNG Services (Hidden Valley Gold project), Newcrest Mining (O’Callaghan’s Tungsten project), Athena Resources Limited (Byro Magnetite project), Savannah Nickel Mines (Nickel/Copper/Colbalt operation), Gold Road Resources (Gruyere Gold operation) and Doray Minerals (Andy Well Gold operation) to mention a few.

Terry’s expertise includes, gold, copper/gold, nickel/copper/colbalt, iron ore, tungsten, mineral sands, tantalum/tin, lithium and uranium. He specialises in taking a project from exploration, laboratory testwork (design of test program and review), process design and construction to operation/production. During the last thirty years he has acted on numerous occasions as client representative working with engineering companies to bring projects to production.

John Welborn Chairman

Mr Welborn is a Chartered Accountant with a Commerce degree from UWA, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, and a member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

In addition to his extensive corporate career, Mr Welborn is a former Wallaby Rugby player and Commissioner of Tourism in Australia.

Garry Plowright Non-Executive Director

Mr Plowright is an experienced executive with over 25 years’ experience in finance, commercial and technical development within the mining and exploration industry.

Mr Plowright has held global Operational and corporate roles with Gindalbie Metals Ltd, Mt Edon Gold Ltd, Pacmin Mining, Atlas Iron Ltd, Tigris Gold (South Korea) and Westland Titanium (New Zealand).