Director Profiles
Declan Franzmann Executive Director
Mr Franzmann is a mining engineer with more than 17 years experience in operational mine management and engineering roles in Australia. His previous experience includes general and mining management roles at a number of gold, copper and base metal underground and open pit mines in Australia. Mr Franzmann operates Crosscut Consulting, a consulting company providing mine engineering and geology services.
Mick McMullen Executive Chairman
Mr McMullen is a geologist with over 16 years experience in the minerals industry. He has extensive knowledge of the requirements for mine financing and development. He was a founding shareholder and Executive Technical Director of Tritton Resources Limited, a company that developed an underground and open pit copper mine in New South Wales prior to being acquired by Straits Resources Limited. Mr McMullen has extensive contacts within the mining finance world and for two years was the Manager of Audits for RSG Global, a significant minerals consulting business. During that time he has been responsible for the due diligence of numerous assets for financing institutions and as part of M+A activities. Mr McMullen was until recently the Managing Director of Northern Iron Limited, an ASX listed company that redeveloped an iron ore mine in Norway. He has a detailed knowledge of the debt and equity capital markets having raised in excess of $400 million in debt and equity over the past 7 years.
Tom Duckworth Non-executive Director
Mr Duckworth is a metallurgist with over 50 years working experience in resource development and engineering. Recent roles have been as a metallurgical consultant for iron, gold and base metal projects in Australia and Europe. His previous roles include process design, engineering, construction, operation and optimisation of a number of metallurgical processing facilities. These have included the Tritton Copper Mine, Hellyer and Cannington Base Metal Operations. Mr Duckworth has been an independent consultant for 16 years prior to which he was a founding director of Signet Engineering, and previous to that held positions as Chief Metallurgist for BP\Seltrust in Australia and Group Metallurgist for Selection Trust in London. His experience covers the plant design and processing of most minerals including diamonds and coal in all five continents and he has held previous directorships in listed resource companies.
Peter Babin Non-executive Director
Denver based lawyer with 30 years experience as a lawyer, including 9 years as General Counsel and later President of Royal Gold, a TSX and NASDAQ listed gold royalty company capitalised at $2.7 billion. Since 2004 he has managed his private interests which include the CMD operation and oil and gas ventures in the US.
Robert Anderson Company Secretary
Mr Anderson is a Chartered Accountant and has 20 years experience as an accountant and was previously CFO/Company Secretary for a number of ASX listed resource companies, responsible for the day to day finances of the companies. He has extensive knowledge of the requirements of the ASX and the Corporations Act.