THE MINING EXECUTIVE MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2020 EDITION

The
MINING EXECUTIVE
Magazine FEBRUARY 2020
Guyana Goldfields Inc. has announced
the appointment of Mr. Alan
Pangbourne as the Company's
President and Chief Executive Officer,
effective January 1, 2020. Mr. Pangbourne
will succeed Mr. Allen Palmiere, a director of
the Company who was appointed Interim
CEO in late July 2019. Mr. Pangbourne
brings to the role of CEO over 35 years of
diversified management and senior
operational experience with resource industry
expertise in operations, engineering and
major project development, along with a
successful history of company turnarounds
and M&A. Mr. Pangbourne was most recently
the Chief Operating Officer at SSR Mining
Inc. Prior to that, he was Vice President
Projects, South America, with Kinross Gold
Corporation, and before that Mr. Pangbourne
held a number of senior roles over 15 years at
BHP Billiton Ltd., including President and
Chief Operating Officer of Nickel Americas
which included Cerro Matoso, Colombia and
project development in Guatemala and Cuba.
Mr. Pangbourne holds a Bachelor of Applied
Science in Extractive Metallurgy and a
Graduate Diploma in Mineral Processing
from WA School of Mines, Kalgoorlie,
Australia. Mr. Pangbourne was appointed as a
director of the Company in May 2019.
Joaquin Merino-Marquez
VP South American Operations-
Prophecy Development
Corporation
Joaquin Merino-Marquez has been
appointed as Company's Vice President,
South American Operation, based in
Bolivia effective November 1, 2019. Joaquin
is a Professional Geologist with 27 years of
experience in the mining industry. Prior
industry affiliations include roles as Vice
President, Exploration for Primero Mining
Corp. and Vice President Exploration for
Apogee Minerals Ltd. Prior to Apogee, Mr.
Merino-Marquez was the exploration manager
for Placer Dome at the Porgera Mine and a
mine geologist at Hecla Mining's La Camorra
mine. He holds a MSc from Queens
University, and a BSc in Geology from
University of Seville (Spain). He is a member
of the Association of Professional
Geoscientists of Ontario.
OCEANIA
Mike Henry
Chief Executive Officer
Elect BHP
The Board of BHP in November
announced that Mike Henry has been
appointed Chief Executive Officer
(CEO) of BHP, following a thorough
succession process. Mr Henry will assume the
role of CEO and Executive Director effective
1 January 2020, replacing Andrew Mackenzie
who will retire as CEO on 31 December
2019. Mr Henry has 30 years' experience in
the global mining and petroleum industry,
spanning operational, commercial, safety,
technology and marketing roles. He was
appointed to his current role of President
Operations Minerals Australia in 2016, and
has been a member of the Executive
Leadership Team since 2011.
Mark Mitchell
Chief Operating Officer -
Mount Gibson
Mount Gibson Iron has announced the
appointment of Mark Mitchell as
Mount Gibson's new Chief
Operating Officer following the retiring of
Scott de Kruijff end of October 2019. Mr
Mitchell is a Chemical Engineer with an
extensive technical background and more than
20 years' experience in senior management
and operational roles at major mining
operations across Australia,
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Africa and Papua New Guinea spanning
various mineral commodities including
nickel, copper, gold and lithium. Mark was
most recently Executive General Manager at
Mineral Resources' Wodgina lithium mine in
the Pilbara region of Western Australia, where
he oversaw the transition from construction to
commissioning and operations of the
Wodgina hard-rock lithium mine and
concentrator. His prior roles also include Vice
President Operations of the world-scale
Ambatovy nickel laterite operation in
Madagascar, with overall responsibility for all
aspects of the mining, processing, rail
transport and port operations, and senior
corporate and General Manager roles with
Newcrest Mining at the Telfer mine in the
Pilbara and the Hidden Valley gold operation
in Papua New Guinea. ber of the Executive
Leadership Team since 2011.
Richard Seville
Non-Executive Director-
OZ Minerals
Richard Seville, a mining geologist and
geotechnical engineer with 35 plus
years' resources industry experience,
is to join the OZ Minerals Board on 1
November 2019. Richard's experience in the
resources sector includes 25 years as either
Managing Director or Executive Director of
various ASX, TSX or AIM listed companies.
He recently retired from his position as CEO
and Managing Director of Orocobre Limited,
a lithium and boron chemicals producer with
operations in Argentina. He led Orocobre
Limited for 12 years, since pre-IPO, where he
took the Olaroz Brine Project through
exploration, feasibility, financing and into
production.
Richard is a Non-Executive Director of
Orocobre Limited and Advantage Lithium
and is Chairman of Agrimin Limited. He
holds a Bachelor of Science in Mining
Geology from Imperial College, London, and
a Master's in Engineering Science from
James Cook University. He is a Member of
the Australasian Institute of Mining and
Metallurgy. In June 2019 Richard was
appointed Chairperson of Agrimin Limited.
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