2020 Nickel Conference Presenters

Greg Hudson

General Manager - Geology

Greg has more than 19 years’ experience in all facets of hard rock geology, including exploration, project evaluation, mineral resource development and mining. He has extensive minerals experience across Gold, Iron Ore, Lithium, Tantalum and other base metals. Greg was previously the General Manager Geology for Mount Gibson Iron and the Chief Geologist at BC Iron. He holds a Bachelor of Science with Honours and post graduate qualifications in Applied Finance and Mineral Economics.

Rob Stone

Consulting Project Metallurgist

Rob Stone is a Consulting Project Metallurgist at First Quantum Minerals Limited, a global copper and nickel producer listed on Toronto Stock Exchange. Rob joined First Quantum in 1998 and has 36 years of experience in processing plants across a range of international mining operations. Rob graduated from Camborne School of Mines in the UK with first class honours in Mineral Processing. In recent years, Rob has developed and commissioned the Cobre Panama Copper/Gold project (Panama), redevelopment and recommissioning of Ravensthorpe Nickel Operations (Ravensthorpe, Australia) and process and engineering development of the Kolwezi Copper/Cobalt tailings treatment facility (Kolwezi, DRC) in addition to other minor projects at Group operations.

Chris Reed

Managing Director & CEO

Chris started in the mining industry in 1990 and co-founded Reed Resources in 2001. Chris holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Notre Dame and a Graduate Certificate in Mineral Economics from WA School of Mines. He is a Member of the AusIMM and immediate past Vice-President of the Association of Mining & Exploration Companies.

Victor Rajasooriar

Managing Director & CEO

Victor is a Mining Engineer with more than 20 years’ operational and technical experience in multiple disciplines across both underground and open pit operations. Victor has worked in senior operational positions at Echo Resources, Barminco Mining and Newmont where he has been responsible for overseeing the achievement of strict safety, cost and production targets. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) from the WA School of Mines, a WA First Class Mine Managers Certificate and is a member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) and the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).

Tony Rovira

Managing Director

Tony Rovira has worked in the mining industry for over 30 years as an exploration and mining geologist and for the past 16 years as Managing Director of Azure Minerals. Tony has been responsible for the discovery of several gold and nickel deposits in Australia which were developed into operating mines. His most famous discoveries were the rich Cosmos and Cosmos Deeps nickel sulphide deposits in Western Australia. In 2000, Tony was awarded the Prospector of the Year Award by the Australian Association of Mining and Exploration Companies for the Cosmos discovery. From 2006 to 2020, Azure has operated in Mexico where the company made several silver, gold and copper discoveries. Due to the current Covid-19 situation, Tony made the decision to refocus back into Western Australia and recently announced the acquisition of four nickel and gold projects, including the Andover nickel project in the Pilbara where drilling is now underway.

Peter Harold

Managing Director

Peter is a process engineer with over 30 years corporate experience in the minerals industry, specialising in financing, marketing, business development and general corporate activities. Peter has a long history of working on nickel sulphide projects including Mt Keith, Silver Swan/Black Swan, Savannah, Lanfranchi and now the three Poseidon assets – Black Swan, Mt Windarra and Lake Johnston.

Peter joined Poseidon in March 2020. Prior to joining Poseidon Peter was Managing Director of Panoramic Resources for 18 years, a company he co-founded as a $3 million IPO in 2001. Peter steered Panoramic through the financing and development of the Savannah Nickel Project in the East Kimberley and the acquisition and re-start of the Lanfranchi Nickel Project near Kambalda with the company reaching a market capitalisation of $1.2 billion in 2007 and producing a combined 20,000tpa nickel equivalent for the next 10 years. Panoramic made five project acquisitions and one on market takeover during that time and diversified into gold and PGEs.

Peter is also Chairman of ASX listed Ocean Grown Abalone and has been on a number of other ASX listed resource company boards over the past 15 years.

Hon. Bill Johnston MLA

Minister for Mines and Petroleum; Energy; Industrial Relations and Member for Cannington

Bill Johnston is Western Australia’s Minister for Mines and Petroleum, Energy and Industrial Relations.
He has been a Minister for the McGowan Labor Government since March 2017, after a landslide victory against the Liberal Government.
In Opposition he served as Shadow Minister for State Development and Energy from 2012, and Shadow Minister for Mines and Petroleum from 2013.
He was a Member of the Economics and Industry Standing Committee and Deputy Chair of the Inquiry into Domestic Gas Prices from 2010 to 2011.
Prior to entering Parliament, he was the State Secretary of WA Labor from 2001 until 2008, with responsibility for all State and Federal election campaigns.

Jack Anderson

Senior Analyst

Jack Anderson joined Roskill in 2014 and has a wide range of commodity experience, focusing primarily on nickel supply. In addition to presenting at conferences, he co-authors Roskill’s multi-client reports on nickel and cobalt. Jack also contributes to bespoke consultancy studies on these markets, alongside developing Roskill’s research on sustainability within the mining sector.
Jack graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London, with a Masters degree in Geoscience.

Darren Gordon

Managing Director

Mr Gordon is a Chartered Accountant with 25 years’ experience in the mining industry as a senior finance and resources executive. He has been with Centaurus since 2008 and has extensive experience operating in Brazil across multiple commodities.

Scott Williamson

Managing Director

Scott Williamson is a Mining Engineer with a Commerce degree from the West Australian School of Mines and Curtin University. Mr Williamson started his career as an underground mining engineer in the goldfields of Western Australia. Mr Williamson has recent experience in equity capital markets with previous roles as a Resources Analyst at Hartleys and Investor Relations Manager at Resolute Mining. Mr Williamson has a unique blend of experience in mining and finance with both corporate and technical capabilities.

Mark Wilson

Managing Director

Mr Wilson is a Member of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, and a Chartered Professional Engineer. His business background has included management of remote construction projects and ten years of commercial construction. The past twenty years he has been involved in resource focused companies. Mark is Managing Director of Legend Mining Limited.

John Prineas

Executive Chairman

John is a founding shareholder of St George with over 30 years experience in the resources, banking and legal sectors. Prior to establishing St George in 2010, John was Country Head for Commerzbank in Sydney overseeing numerous loans to resources companies.
At St George, he has positioned the company for significant growth in the era of the electric battery revolution with Australia’s latest nickel-copper sulphide discovery at Mt Alexander.

Jim Lennon

Managing Director

• Jim has 40 years of experience in researching the international metals and mining industries
• Jim Lennon worked at Macquarie from 1994 to 2013. He left Macquarie in June 2013 and set up his own consulting company, Red Door Research Ltd. The consulting company specialises in the economic analysis of hard commodity markets. Jim remains a part-time consultant to Macquarie.
• Until June 2013, he was Chairman of Commodities at Macquarie, having worked for Macquarie for 19 years. He founded and headed up a 10 person research team in London, Singapore and Shanghai which serviced the equity, LME trading and corporate advisory divisions of the bank with steel, coal, metals and minerals research and market intelligence.
• Jim and his team at Macquarie were regularly ranked number one in various surveys of commodities research among equity investors for over a decade.
• Prior to Macquarie, Jim worked for 10 years at CRU International, where he headed up a team specialising in Special steels (including stainless steel) and steelmaking alloys (mainly manganese, silicon, chrome, nickel and molybdenum). While at CRU, Jim also undertook major studies on metallurgical coal and iron ore.
• Jim’s current major specialisations are the main base metals and steel industries and their raw materials including nickel, chrome, molybdenum, iron ore and coking coal.
• Before joining CRU, Jim worked as a marketing analyst at New Zealand Steel. He has also worked as an Associate Director of Metals and Mining Research at Shearson Lehman Hutton Securities.
• Jim has a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has a strong interest in development economics.

Mike Jones

Managing Director

Dr Michael Jones is the Managing Director of Impact Minerals Limited which he helped found in 2006. Mike leads his exploration team who are currently focussed on the Broken Hill project where the company has discovered some of the highest grades of PGMS in Australia at a time of record palladium prices, its Commonwealth Project in the Lachlan Fold Belt where follow up exploration is in progress for large porphyry copper-gold deposits along trend from Alkane’s Boda-Kaiser discovery and its new Arkun nickel-copper-PGE-Gold Project in Western Australia.

Alex Dorsch

Managing Director

Alex is the Managing Director of Chalice Gold Mines having commenced in late 2017. Alex is an experienced consultant, engineer, project manager and corporate advisor in the resources sector. Prior to joining Chalice, he was working as a Specialist consultant with the global management consultancy McKinsey & Company.

He commenced his engineering career with resources giant BHP in Adelaide, and then spent over six years as an engineer in oil and gas exploration. Alex holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (first class Honours) and a Bachelor of Finance from the University of Adelaide.

Andrew Penkethman

Chief Executive Officer

Andrew Penkethman is a resources sector executive and geologist with 25 years’ experience in the resources industry. His technical skills include project evaluation, early stage and near mine exploration, resource development, feasibility study management, permitting, stake holder engagement and mine development across open pit and underground operations within Australia and overseas. Commodities experience includes gold, base metals, battery minerals and energy commodities over a range of geological settings. Mr Penkethman’s technical expertise is complimented by over 13 years in executive roles with a strong corporate focus including strategic partner processes, joint venture management, financial modelling, and project acquisition and divestment. Mr Penkethman has ASX, AIM and TSX equity markets experience.

Mr Penkethman holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wollongong, is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists.

Daniel Lougher

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer

Dan Lougher is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Western Areas, a nickel mining and exploration company which listed on the Australia Stock Exchange in July 2000.
Dan is a qualified Mining Engineer with over 38 years’ experience in all aspects of resource and mining project exploration, feasibility, development and operations.
Mr Lougher is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy.

David Southam

Managing Director

David Southam is the Managing Director of Mincor having commenced in February 2019. David brings extensive industry experience including significant capital markets expertise, a successful M&A track record, familiarity with the set-up and operation of joint ventures, negotiation of substantial international commodity offtake agreements and has a background covering base and precious metals, bulk materials, contracting and industrial logistics. David is a Certified Practicing Accountant and has more than 25 years’ experience in accounting, banking and finance across the resources and industrial sectors. David was an Executive Director at Western Areas from 2010 to 2018 and was a Non-Executive Director of Kidman Resources up to the Wesfarmers takeover announcement. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Ramelius Resources, Council Member and Chairman of the Audit and Compliance Committee of Curtin University.

Peter Bradford

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer

Peter Bradford joined IGO Limited as its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer in March 2014. He is a qualified metallurgist with over 35 years of experience in gold and base metals mining operations, exploration and development, and has held senior positions internationally and within Australia. Peter is a graduate of the Western Australian School of Mines, a fellow of Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, President of the Association of Exploration & Mining Companies and a WA Mining Club committee member.

Aidan Platel

Managing Director

Mr Platel is a geologist with over 20 years’ experience in the minerals industry, in both mining and exploration roles across a wide range of commodities. Before Auroch Minerals Mr Platel worked as an independent strategic consultant focusing on project evaluation, prior to which he spent 12 years in South America in mining and exploration. He has a proven track record of exploration success having discovered and developed several major deposits including the world-class Santa Rita Nickel Sulphide deposit (>1Mt contained Ni metal).

David Riekie

Interim Chief Executive Officer

David is the Interim CEO Poseidon Nickel Limited and he was appointed to this role on 1 September 2019 after a period of 6 months as the Company’s Interim CFO.

David is an experienced ASX director who has operated at both the Executive and Non-executive level with listed entities with assets or operations throughout Australia, Asia, Africa, Canada and Eastern Europe. He has been involved with a broad range of precious, base and energy minerals as well as oil and gas.

He has over his career provided corporate, strategic and compliance services to a variety of organisations operating in the Resource and Industrial sector, usually enterprises seeking expansion capital, refocus or revitalisation.

He has overseen, exploration and resource development, scoping and feasibility studies, production, optimisation and rehabilitation initiatives.

David has a special interest in the energy and energy storage sector, primarily through energy storage minerals and commodities with specific knowledge of nickel, uranium oil and gas, graphite, lithium, copper and cobalt .

David is a Non-Executive Director of remote power generation and energy solutions specialist, ASX listed Zenith Energy Limited and independent uranium company Paladin Energy Limited.

Martin Kavanagh

Non-Executive Director

Martin is a geologist with over 49 years’ exploration and mining experience acquired through fieldwork, research and management of Australia-wide and offshore programmes in Indonesia, North America, the Southwest Pacific region and Southern Africa.

Corporate sector experience stems from 24 years as a director of ASX listed companies.
Given this is a nickel conference, his relevant experience commenced in 1970 when he joined International Nickel Australia Ltd initially at their Widgiemooltha operations which included the Mt Edwards mine until he was the last man standing at INCO and made responsible for the sale of INCO’s assets to WMC in 1977.

That year he joined Anaconda Australia as their nickel geologist and was back at Widgiemootha responsible for the Redross Mine area exploration.

During this time, he also worked on the Yakabindie/Six Mile nickel deposit and in 1983 he ended up being tasked with the disposal of Anaconda’s Widgiemooltha nickel assets again to WMC. In 1985, Martin together with the four remaining Anaconda geologists bought the Australian and Indonesian assets of Anaconda and merged them with Dominion Oil and Gas to form Dominion Mining Ltd a very successful open pit gold miner.

There followed many years of gold, base metals and uranium exploration leading eventually to rebirth as a nickel geologist for Chase Mining in their Canadian aspirations.

2020 Nickel Conference Presenters

Hon. Bill Johnston

Gvt of Western Australia

Jim Lennon

Macquarie Group Ltd

Daniel Lougher

Western Areas Ltd

Peter Bradford

IGO Ltd

David Southam

Mincor Resources NL

Mark Wilson

Legend Mining

John Prineas

St George Mining Ltd

Scott Williamson

Blackstone Minerals Ltd

Peter Harold

Poseidon Nickel Ltd

Aidan Platel

Auroch Minerals Ltd

Andrew Penkethman

Ardea Resources Ltd

Alex Dorsch

Chalice Gold Mines Ltd

Darren Gordon

Centaurus Metals Ltd

Mike Jones

Impact Minerals

Jack Anderson

Roskill

John DeVries

FQML

Tony Rovira

Azure Minerals Ltd

Victor Rajasooriar

Panoramic Resources Ltd

Chris Reed

Neometals

Rob Stone

First Quantum Minerals Ltd

Greg Hudson

Neometals

6 October 2020