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.

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, Papua New Guinea

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.

Peter Muccilli
Exploration Manager, Australia

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.

Brett Fowler
General Manager, Kambalda Operations

Brett Fowler is a mining engineer/mine geologist with over 25 years in the mining industry. Having started his career working underground on Kalgoorlie's Golden Mile, he worked as a mining and exploration geologist in the Eastern Goldfields, Yilgarn and Northern Territory over 10 years. He then held roles of mining superintendent with Resolute Ltd at their Higginsville open pit and underground gold operation, followed by mining manager and then operations manager of the Bulong Nickel Project near Kalgoorlie.

Brett has a Graduate Diploma in Computing and in 2003 completed a Mining Engineering Graduate Diploma. He then worked as a mining engineer in underground gold and nickel operations around the Kambalda region from 2004-2009, including 3 years as underground manager at Mincor's Otter Juan Nickel Mine, after attaining a WA First Class Mine Managers Certificate of Competency. After 4 years at Minara Resources' Murrin Murrin HPAL nickel laterite operation as mining manager, Brett returned to Mincor in the role of General Manager, Kambalda Nickel Operations. 

Paul Fyfe
Operations Manager, Kambalda Operations

Paul Fyfe has over 39 years experience in the mining industry. In the last 20 years, Paul has managed projects in Australia and overseas. For the last 10 years he has worked as operations manager for Goldfields Mine Management and Mincor at their Kambalda operations. Paul has extensive experience managing challenging projects both as a contractor and client.