Rhoderick
Gordon John Grivas, Non-executive chairman
Mr Grivas, aged 44, is a geologist with over 20 years' experience in all technical aspects of exploration, from grassroots through to resource estimation and feasibility. He has held a number of director and management positions with junior resource companies and worked at Gilt-Edged Mining NL prior to its takeover by Goldfields Limited (now Barrick), as the Kundana exploration manager during the discovery by Gilt-Edged Mining of a million ounce gold resource, located directly along strike from Dioro Exploration NL's Frog's Leg deposit. Mr Grivas was also Managing Director of Dioro Exploration NL prior to the company being taken over by Avoca Resources Limited during 2010.
Appointed 13 August 2007
William
Frank Clayton, Managing Director
Mr Clayton, aged 54, has more than 18 years experience in exploration evaluation of Archaean nickel sulphide deposits in Western Australia. From project geologist roles supervising drilling programs on the Mount Keith and Goliath-Yackabindie nickel sulphide deposits he joined Outokumpu Australia in 1992 as exploration geologist, later moving to the role of underground mine geologist. In 1996 he joined Forrestania Gold and shortly after participated in the discovery of the Emily Ann deposit. This led to key supervisory roles with LionOre in the evaluation of the Maggie Hays, Emily Ann and Waterloo-Amorac deposits. He completed an MBA, specialising in mineral economics, from Curtin University in 2005 and subsequently worked for the geological consultancy CSA Australia Pty Ltd in project evaluation and generation roles in Australia and Africa.
Appointed 2 November 2007
David Maxwell
McArthur, Executive Director /
Company Secretary
Mr McArthur, aged 52, is a Chartered Accountant, with over 28 years' experience in the accounting profession. Mr McArthur has been actively involved in the financial and corporate management of a number of public listed companies for the past 27 years.
Appointed 13 August 2007
Mark
William Pitt, Non-executive Director
Mark Pitt is a mining engineer with over 40 years mining
industry experience. He holds a Diploma in Mining Engineering and
is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
and a member of the Institution of Engineers Australia Mark has
been involved in both open pit and underground mining for base
metals and gold. He has a wide range of experience in mine
management, mine planning and permitting particularly with junior
companies He has had considerable success in rejuvenating projects
that have stalled or been abandoned by previous operators.
He has been a director of several public companies. More recently
he was the mining engineer member of the original board that
created the successful gold miner New Hampton Goldfields Limited
and was operations director of Dioro Exploration NL.
Appointed 13 August 2007