Board of Directors

Richard Hine
BSc, PhD, MAusIMM, MGSA, MSEG
Chairman of the Board

Dr Hine has had over 30 years of broad experience in the minerals industry as a project geologist, researcher, exploration manager and company director. He has a PhD in economic geology and is a graduate of the Australian National University and the James Cook University of North Queensland.

Dr Hine has specialist skills in exploration management, ore deposit and prospect evaluation, terrane analysis, regional target selection, exploration data synthesis, ore petrology, mineralogy and conceptual analysis. He has worked on a wide range of deposit types and mineral commodities that include: porphyry, epithermal and skarn style copper, molybdenum and gold deposits; volcanic-hosted massive sulphide copper, lead and zinc deposits; disseminated, vein and skarn style tin and tungsten deposits; alluvial gold and tin; and intrusion related rare metal and REE deposits.

Over the years, Dr Hineís training has come from the teaching and guidance of many high-profile academics and respected industry colleagues. Since graduation he has worked in Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Western Europe, New Zealand, the Fiji Islands and Eastern and Central Australia. Most of his career has been spent in exploration of the Tasman Orogenic Zone as a company employee and consultant. He has specialist knowledge of the mineralisation of the Lachlan Fold Belt of New South Wales and Victoria and is well versed in the many aspects of mineral production through his participation in the development of the Junction Reefs group of gold mines in the nineties.
Dr Hine is a long standing Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Geological Society of Australia and the Society of Economic Geologists. He is the Managing Director of Heemskirk Resources Pty Limited, which was established in 1999 to pursue exploration opportunities in New South Wales and to provide a consulting and management service to the minerals industry.

Robert McCauley
BSc, Licensed Surveyor, MIS Aust, Cert.Prof.SSI

Mr McCauley has over the past 27 years been involved in a capacity as either Principal/consultant, senior staff or staff positions to numerous companies such as Worsley Alumina Pty Ltd, Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners, BHP Ltd, Layton Seismic Services and Boral Limited on major infrastructure, mining and seismic exploration projects and areas such as the Boddington Gold Mine (WA); Monasavu Hydro Electric Scheme, Fiji; the North West Shelf Liquified Natural Gas Plant (WA); Dongara (WA); Lake Frome (SA) and Murrumbateman (NSW).

Mr McCauley has a broad range of experience and contacts in both the private and public sectors. He has been Manager of Robert J McCauley & Associates (land, mining & engineering surveyors) since 1991 and has held positions such as President of the Institution of Surveyors Australia, Canberra Division including nominee for the Canberra Business Council; Member (ministerial nominee) of the statutory Surveyorsí Board of the Australian Capital Territory and Chairman of the Australian Council of Professions, ACT branch. He is a graduate of W.A.I.T. / Curtin University; a Licensed Surveyor; a Member of the Institution of Surveyors, Australia and a Certified Professional of the Spatial Sciences Institute.

Christopher Ablett
Registered Surveyor, Cert. Mining, MAusIMM, MSSSI
Director

Mr Ablett is a Registered Surveyor who has been associated with the mining and exploration industry since the late 1960s. He has considerable experience in mine site, open pit and underground mine survey and in quantity surveying. Mr Ablett has worked on mining projects in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, the eastern Australian States and Fiji. He has held a number of senior staff positions with several large gold and base metal mines including Emperor Gold Mines Ltd, Cleveland Tin Ltd and at other mines run by the former Peko-Wallsend Group.

Mr Ablett formed his own private company, Ablex Pty Ltd, in 1984 as a service provider for the mining and surveying industries and to look for exploration opportunities in eastern Australia. During this time Mr Ablett has participated at a grass roots level on several significant exploration projects including the Cowal Gold Project and the Adelong Gold Project in New South Wales. He has also provided contract supervision for surface and underground mining and exploration operations.

Mr Ablett is committed to the Mining Industry and believes Australia provides an excellent environment for exploration and the development of mineral resources. Mr Ablett is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute and is the Managing Director of Ablex Pty Ltd.

John Seeley
Consultant Geologist, M.Sc(Hons), Grad.Dip.App.Econ, MAusIMM, MSEG, MAIME.
Director

Mr Seeley was appointed to the Board in February 2008 as an Independent Non Executive director. Mr Seeley has been a geologist in the minerals industry for over 40 years. He has an M.Sc(Hons) degree from Auckland University and a post graduate diploma in applied economics from the University of Canberra.

Mr Seeley has a broad commodity experience in over twenty five countries in a wide range of geological environments. He has explored for gold in epithermal, mesothermal, porphyry, polymetallic, Carlin type and alluvial environments and for copper in porphyry, volcanic hosted massive sulphide and stratiform environments. He carried out exploration for base metals in stratiform and volcanogenic environments and for nickel and platinum associated in ultramafic rocks as laterite and sulphides and greenstone belts. Exploration for tin, tungsten and potash has been undertaken for lengthy periods in SE Asia.

His experience includes mine and exploration geology and some sixteen years in exploration management for international mining companies and the United Nations. He has taught geology at tertiary level and has for a number of years worked as an independent consulting geologist undertaking project assessment locally and overseas, writing independent expert reports and carrying out short term project management.