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.

Ed Edwards Managing Director

Qualifications

Mr Edwards is a Chartered Accountant with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia.

Experience

Mr Edwards has over 40 years of experience in the mining industry in Western Australia. He has previously been Executive Director or Finance Director of a number of listed mining and exploration companies having taken many of these companies through the initial public offering, then exploration, feasibility and finally into production.

Directorships held in listed entities

In the 3 years immediately before the end of the financial year Mr Edwards did not serve as a director of any other listed companies.

Hau Wan Wai Non-Executive Director

Experience

Hau Wan Wai (John) graduated from The University of Regina Canada in 1998 with a Bachelor of Administration, Major in Marketing. John speaks Mandarin, Cantonese and English. He was born and resides in Hong Kong. John is also the executive director of Brilliant Glory Industrial Corporation Ltd, the Hong Kong company which is the 100% parent of Brilliant Glory Investments.

He has twenty years of international trade and relations experience having started his career as a merchandiser. He specialises in management of overseas customers to locate the sourcing of materials for mainland China in many different fields, and especially in Mineral resources.

Directorships held in listed entities

In the 3 years immediately before the end of the financial year Mr Wai did not serve as a director of any other listed companies.

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.