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 Hine's
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 Surveyors 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.
Mr Meng
Tian
Managing Director CMI, M.Econ, BSc, MA
Director
Mr Tian is Managing Director
of China Metallurgical Investment Ltd (CMI) (ACN 131 883
193) a
position he has held since 2008. Mr Tian holds a Master
of Economics degree from the Capital
University of Economics and Business, China, a Bachelor
of Science degree from Shandong
University, China and a Master of Arts degree from Macquarie
University, Sydney, Australia. Prior
to becoming Managing Director of CMI Mr Tian's work experience
has included four and a half
years as a financial analyst with the Sydney Bureau of China
Central TV and prior to that 10 years
as a lecturer in economics at two universities in China.
