Board of Directors
Greg J Wheeler
BCom; FCA; SF Fin; GAICDExecutive Chairman; Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer – 14th July 2006 to present
Non-Executive Director – 25 October 2004 to 14th July 2006
Mr Wheeler is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, and has operated in many of the major accounting practices for the past 25 years in Australia and overseas. Greg was a Partner at the Chartered Accounting practices of Grant Thornton [1990 to 1999] and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu [1999 to 2002], before establishing his own consulting firm in 2002. His skills include:- company and business valuations, advice to directors/shareholders; shareholder wealth strategies, capital raisings and broker presentations, acquisitions and divestitures, corporate governance; commercial negotiations and risk assessment and mitigation.
Michael Wilson
B Ec; B Sc (Hons); MAusIMMExecutive Technical Director - 1st June 2007 to present
Mr Wilson has been with the company for twelve years and has played major roles at Tunkillia on the Gawler Craton, South Australia and in the exploration for gold, platinum group metals and base metals in the Proterozoic Terranes of New South Wales and South Australia, and the Proterozoic and Archaean Terranes in Western Australia. Michael’s experience includes project management; mineral exploration using geology, geochemistry, geophysics and drilling; ore resource drilling, ore resource estimation and evaluation programs; and monitoring joint venture projects.
Michael leads our team of experienced geologists and technical staff and is also completing his Masters of Business Administration and Masters of Mineral Economics part-time at Curtin University.
John den Dryver
BE (Mining) MSc FAusIMM (CP)Non-Executive Director - Appointed 25 October 2004
Mr den Dryver is a mining engineer with some 30 years mining experience in operational and corporate management. John joined Mount Isa Mines in 1973. In 1982, John joined North Flinders Mines as the Company Mining Engineer. He became the Operations Manager for North Flinders after the mine was commissioned in 1986 and over the next 10 years managed the operations as well as developing the further discoveries in this region including the Callie Mine. In 1987 he was invited to join the Board of North Flinders to become Executive Director- Operations. In 1997 after Normandy Mining took over North Flinders, John was appointed Executive General Manager-Technical leading a team of specialist geologists, mining engineers and metallurgists in operational support, technical review and due-diligence activities. In 2003, after the takeover of Normandy by Newmont Corporation John set up his own mining consultancy business.
Gordon Dunbar
BSc (Hons), MSc, FAusIMM (CP), FAIGNon-Executive Director - Appointed 18 July 2006
Mr Dunbar is a consulting geologist with forty years experience in the Australian minerals industry managing project development, mineral exploration and evaluation programmes, mine geology, financial studies, production assessment and monitoring joint venture projects. Gordon’s experience includes exploration and mining geology roles at Kambalda with WMC, the evaluation of the Golden Grove base metal deposit in WA, the Chief Geologist at Rosebery Mine in Tasmania and management roles with BP Australia undertaking financial studies, monitoring the evaluation of the Olympic Dam deposit and as Exploration manager for BP Minerals.
Gordon formed his own consulting group in 1990 to provide advice on exploration, evaluation, mining geology, project assessment and pre-feasibility studies, particularly those involving gold, base metals and nickel. He has worked on projects within Australia and Internationally.