Mr Mullens graduated with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in geology, from Australia's Monash University. Having spent 23 years in the mining industry, his experience includes work as a mine geologist for the Rio Tinto and Mt Isa mines at Broken Hill and Mt Isa in Australia, extensive work as an exploration geologist in Australia, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, China and Canada, and corporate roles with Laramide Resources and Aquiline Resources, both listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canada. From 1994 to 1997, Mr Mullens was District Manager Argentina, then Central America, for Mt Isa Mines. Later, he worked as an independent consultant geologist based in Lima, Peru. In 2002, Mr Mullens joined the board of Laramide Resources, as Vice-president, Exploration and Corporate Development. In that role, he identified and acquired the Westmoreland Uranium Project in Queensland, Australia and assisted with financing and corporate development. During his time with Laramide, that company's market capitalisation rose from CA$5.0 million to approximately CA$650 million. With Aquiline Resources, Mr Mullens was instrumental in identifying and acquiring the Calcatreu Gold Project, the company's main asset in Argentina. Subsequently, Aquiline's market capitalisation increased from CA$4 million to around CA$400 million.
Managing Director - Mark Major
Mr Major is a geoscientist with 13 plus years' experience in the resources sector, both within Australia and overseas (including South America for the last eight years). During that time, he has been involved in, and held more than, 10 pre-feasibility and feasibility level project management positions, as well as being directly involved in several project acquisitions. Most recently, Mr Major was responsible for the development and coordination of the Calcatreu Project in Southern Argentina, as well as contributing to the senior management of the Navidad Project in southern Argentina (current resource of approximately 320 million ounces of silver) for Toronto-listed Aquiline Resources Limited (market capitalisation CA$550 million).
Non-executive director - Adrian Griffin
Mr Griffin's career in mining spans 30 years. Having initially explored for base metals in Tasmania, he went on to develop mine-planning, grade contract and exploration methods in iron ore for BHP. In the1980s, Mr Griffin was involved in the mining and production of gold and base metals in south-east Asia and Australia, including the commissioning of underground production at the Bellevue Gold Mine in Western Australia. In 1990, he began consulting to the mining industry and since then has held board positions with many public companies.
Non-executive director - Bryan Dixon
Formerly with KPMG, Resolute Limited and the Société Général, Mr Dixon has sound experience in both financing and administration in public and listed companies. He specialises in administration and compliance issues for emerging ASX- and AIM-listed resource entities.
Non-executive director - Nathan McMahon
With more than 14 years' experience in the resources sector within Australia, Mr McMahon is also Joint Managing Director of Cazaly Resources and a director of several unlisted mining and exploration companies with interests in platinum group elements, base metals, industrial minerals and diamond exploration. He specialises in native title and joint venture negotiations, as well as project acquisition due diligence.