Directors’ Profiles

Roger Marshall OBE
BE, MAusIMM, FAIM, FAICD
Chairman

Roger Marshall has over 40 years experience in the mining industry covering management, marketing, finance and operational roles. He was an Executive Director of the operating board of BP Australia, and MIM Holdings Limited (1984 - 1992) and A.G.D. Mining Limited (1999 - 2004). He also served as Chairman of Energy Brix Australia Corporation (1993 - 1996).

He has been responsible for the development and production of a number of mines and served on the Committee of World Coal Institute, London (1983 - 1993). He is also a former Chairman of the Australian Coal Association and the Queensland Coal Association (1987 - 1988) and was an Australian representative to the International Energy Agency. Roger is currently Deputy Chairman of CITIC Australia Trading Limited and has been Deputy Chairman of Macarthur Coal Limited since July 2001.

Roger’s appointments to the Boards of other publicly listed companies include Chairman of Queensland Ores Limited since May 2005 and Copper Resources Corporation from November 2005.

Roger was appointed an Officer of the British Empire in 1989 for services to the Australian Coal Industry and an Honorary Life Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Management.

John Alexander Anderson
BSc Hons, MAusIMM, MSEG, MAIG, MGSA
Managing Director

John is a Brisbane-based geologist and exploration manager of 28 years experience, initially with Aberfoyle and more recently as General Manager – Exploration Australia for MIM Exploration Pty Ltd.

He has explored in most Australian jurisdictions for a wide range of commodities with an emphasis on the major base metal / gold mining centres including Kalgoorlie, Broken Hill, McArthur River, Mount Isa / Ernest Henry and the Gawler Craton.
John led teams in the discoveries of the Angas zinc resource, the major portion of the Menninnie Dam zinc deposit, the White Dam gold copper deposit and several mineral sands deposits in the Murray Basin. He is a former President of the South Australian Chamber of Mines and Energy. John is currently Non-Executive Director with Southern Gold Limited.

David Garred Jones
BSc, MSc, FIMMM (London), FAusIMM, MGSA, MAIME-SME
Non-Executive Director

David commenced his career in 1964 as a geologist with Broken Hill South Limited and was involved in the discovery of the Duchess Phosphate deposit near Mt Isa. Between 1966 and 1968 David was employed by Mt Isa Mines in Exploration for base metals in the Mt Isa district.

David held a Senior Lecturing position with the University of South Australia from 1971 - 1979 and was Research Professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver where he spent 10 months visiting all operating mines west of The Rockies from Yukon to Mexico and guest lecturing at various Academic Institutions including Stamford University.

From 1979 - 2000 David held various appointments with Newmont Australia (subsequently Newcrest Mining Limited) including Chief Geologist Australia, Exploration Manager International and Exploration Manager Europe, Asia and Africa. While employed with Newcrest David supervised exploration in Southeast Asia and Southwest Pacific, pioneered Newcrest’s establishment in Indonesia and Vietnam and was responsible for operations in Europe (Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic and Ireland). Prior to his retirement in 2000 David advised Newcrest on all aspects of long term and strategic planning and prepared the company annual business plan.

David is currently principal of his own consulting company VIDORO Pty Ltd and has undertaken independent geologist’s reports for gold mines in Bolivia, Brazil, Kyrgyz Republic, the Philippines and Australia as well as reports on uranium projects in the Northern Territory and Queensland.

Stephen Richard Biggins
BSc Hons, MBA, MAusIMM
Non-Executive Director

Stephen has accumulated broad experience as a geologist in mineral exploration, development and mining throughout Australia over the past 15 years. He has also applied his MBA to the management of exploration, resource definition and feasibility studies. Stephen joined Pima Mining the mid 1990s as an exploration geologist, supervising various exploration projects in gold and base metals on the Gawler Craton. Prior to this, he spent 3 years with Mines and Energy SA (MESA) as an exploration geophysicist during the South Australian Exploration Initiative (SAEI). As a mineral geophysicist, Stephen has also worked with BHP (Iron Duke) and Hamersley Iron (Tom Price) in near-mine and in-pit iron ore exploration.

Stephen is the founding Managing Director of Southern Gold Limited.

Garry Clifton Gill
CA, FCIS, MAICD
Company Secretary and Chief Financial Officer

Garry has more than 25 years experience in all facets of corporate financial and administrative functions including extensive periods as Company Secretary of Jupiters Limited and Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Services Manager of South Bank Corporation, the Statutory Authority charged with the development and management of Brisbane’s South Bank parklands.

He is company secretary to Tasman Goldfields Limited a locally based gold explorer with interests in Queensland, NSW, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea and Trojan Equity Limited a Brisbane based listed investment company.