Management

Steve Cowle
Chief Operating Officer

Mr Cowle is a geologist with over 20 years experience in the nickel and gold mining industry. His experience includes mine geology, exploration, business development, planning and operations general management. He has worked at Fimiston, Mt Magnet, Kambalda and Leinster. More recently he oversaw the construction of and managed the development and operation of the Carosue Dam Project.

Since joining Mincor in December 2003, he has overseen the restructuring of the Kambalda Operations to deliver improved safety, efficiency and productivity.

Graham Fariss
General Manager, Corporate Development

Mr Fariss graduated as a civil engineer from the University of Western Australia in 1979 and added a Masters of Business Administration from the same university in 1989. He joined Mincor in May 2006 as General Manager, Corporate Development after having served as General Manager, Corporate Finance with Tethyan Copper Company Limited (which he joined in December 2004). Graham previously held a number of senior finance and business development positions with Clough Limited over a 15 year period which commenced in 1990. His diverse experience in the resource, construction and engineering sectors over the past 26 years has included an exposure to business practices in Indonesia, Pakistan and South Africa.


Mike Hildebrand
General Manager, Kambalda Operations

Mr Hildebrand is a Mining Engineer with more than 15 years experience in underground and surface mining. He joined Mincor in July 2006 and has filled a variety of management, operational and planning roles with Rio Tinto, Pasminco and Newmont. Mike has worked in large and small scale underground mines in gold and base metals, and is responsible for Mincor’s Kambalda mining operations.


Robert Hartley
Projects Manager

Mr Hartley has over 20 years experience in the mining and exploration industry. He has held prior positions with Cyprus Gold, Arimco, Newcrest Mining and Iscor Australia. Rob has worked on projects in New Zealand, Fiji, Vanuatu, Soloman Islands and Proterozoic terrains of Australia. The latter 10 years have been as a development/project geologist involved in advanced feasibility study work and reserve estimates.

Richard Hatfield
Exploration Manager, Regional

Mr Hatfield has an M.Sc. degree in geology and has previously worked for Shell/Billiton, Rio Tinto and Iscor Australia. During his 8 years with Shell, he worked on and managed gold and base metal projects in 5 different countries in Africa and Indonesia. He then moved to Rio Tinto to manage diamond exploration programs in Western Australia before assuming a 2 year business development role with Iscor Australia. Richard joined Mincor at its inception as Exploration Manager, and is responsible for all of the Company’s exploration activities.

Brian Lynn
Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary

Mr Lynn is a chartered accountant with over 17 years experience. He joined Mincor in May 2001 and is responsible for the financial, accounting, treasury, company secretarial and administrative functions of the Group. After completing his Bachelor of Business degree in 1985, Brian commenced his career with KPMG, one of the Big 5 chartered accounting firms. Brian held the position of Senior Audit Manager within KPMG's Energy and Natural Resources Group. Since leaving KPMG in 1994 Brian has held senior financial positions with companies involved in the mining industry, including gold and mineral sands.

Peter Muccilli
Exploration Manager, Nickel

Mr Muccilli is a geologist with over 15 years experience and has worked in gold, nickel, zinc and lead. He has previously worked for Samantha Gold, Resolute and Western Metals. Peter’s experience includes mine geology (both open cut and underground), exploration and resource estimations. He worked extensively at the Lennard Shelf in the Kimberley and the Eastern Goldfields. Peter has been the commissioning mine geologist for a number of new mines, including the Chalice Gold Mine and Pillara Lead Zinc mine.

Peter Teasdale
General Manager, Otter Juan Nickel Mine

Peter Teasdale is a mining engineer with over 36 years experience in the mining industry.  Having started his career with Mt Isa Mines, he has worked a large part of this time with WMC Resources where he held the roles of underground manager and production superintendent at Kambalda Nickel Operations, resident manager at Central Norseman Gold Corporation and later as project mining engineer for the WMC Gold Division based in Perth.  He completed a Master of Engineering Science - Mining Geomechanics course in 2001.  For the past 6 years Peter has been operations manager for Goldfields Mine Management which operated the Otter Juan/Coronet Mine at Kambalda.

Dean Will
Chief Mining Engineer

Mr Will has worked in the mining industry as an engineer for 20 years. Dean graduated with a BA of Engineering (Mining) and has completed his Masters of Business Administration (Honours) while working for Homestake Mining in San Francisco in 2002. Dean joined Mincor in late 2002 with broad responsibilities in the areas of mining engineering, project evaluations and contract management.

 
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