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Woodside Energy Ltd and Director of Strategy for Hardman Resources Ltd.
Samantha has recently worked with the Commonwealth Bank as Senior Advisor to
the Natural Resources Group (oil, gas, metals and mining) and was Director of the
Pilbara Power Project on behalf of the Premier’s Office working with industry and
government to find a workable solution to the power needs of the Pilbara region.
Samantha also worked in the venture capital industry for a number of years
focussed on young companies and assisting them through various phases of
growth.
Graham Brock
(Non-Executive
Director)
Graham Brock is a metallurgist and has worked in the minerals industry for over 40
years on a diverse mix of commodities including gold, nickel, tin, copper, zinc,
silver, magnetite and graphite. In the last 25 years Graham has worked in the field
of project development from conceptual studies through to construction and has
successfully evaluated, built and commissioned several gold, nickel and tin projects
including Wheal Jane tin, Mt Keith nickel, Black Swan nickel, Golden Crown gold,
Waihi gold, Wirralie gold, Salsigne gold, Lake Johnson nickel and Westonia gold.
Graham graduated from the Royal School of Mines (RSM), London in 1968 with a
BSc Eng and Associateship of RSM. Graham is a Fellow of the AusIMM and has
worked in Australia, UK, Fiji and USA. He has held positions as General Manager
Projects for LionOre; Group Metallurgist and Director Technology for MPI Mines
and Group Metallurgist for Australian Consolidated Minerals.
Jon Parker (Non-
Executive Director)
Jon Parker has had 30 years in commercial, development and strategy roles,
preceded by 10 years in technical roles.
Jon held executive roles within Rio Tinto for 26 years in management and
executive roles in iron ore, energy, kaolin and aluminium. This was followed by 4.5
years as Managing Director with Felix Resources Limited and, more recently, as
Managing Director of Norton Gold Fields Limited for 2 years until January 2010.
Jon has a degree in Physical Chemistry (Hons) (Sydney) and a Graduate Diploma
Business Administration (Curtin) complemented by management programs in
Australia (Mt Eliza) and the US (Columbia).
John Rowe (Non-
Executive Director)
John Rowe holds a BSc (Hons) in Mining Geology from the Royal School of Mines,
Imperial College, London University and has had a distinguished career over a 40
year period in the mining industry.
John is the principal of John Rowe and Associates which provides geological and
business development advice to the mining industry and is a non-executive
Director of Panoramic Resources Ltd and Evolution Mining Limited. During his
period as Chairman of Catalpa Resources (former name for Evolution Mining) in
2008/2009, Catalpa finalised the bankable feasibility study and completed debt and
equity funding for the 100,000oz/year Edna May Gold Project at Westonia. Prior to
establishing John Rowe and Associates in 2006, John spent 13 years with MPI
Mines / Lion Ore Australia in various group executive roles including Executive
General Manager Mineral Inventory and Group Executive – Acquisitions &
Resource Management. John’s role at MPI Mines included responsibility for all
geological activities including exploration, mine geology and project evaluation.
This included involvement in the development and production of the high grade
Silver Swan nickel sulphide project as well as the 100,000oz/year Stawell Gold
Mine in Victoria. He had a short period with R&I Gold Bank in the technical division
before joining MPI Mines in 1993.