Professor Ian Plimer B.Sc.(Hons), PhD, FTSE, FAusIMM, FGS
Chairman
Professor Plimer is the Professor of Mining Geology (The University of Adelaide) and Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences (The University of Melbourne). He has previously held academic positions as Professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the University of Newcastle. His academic career includes the Leopold von Buch Medal for Science, the Centenary Medal and the Eureka Prize (twice).
Professor Plimer has previously been on the staff of North Broken Hill Ltd, and is a prominent Australian geologist who has spent most of his industry, consulting and scientific life working on base metal deposits, particularly in Broken Hill, epithermal gold deposits, especially in the Mediterranean, and tungsten-tin-molybdenum deposits. He has predicted and discovered a number of epithermal gold deposits in the Mediterranean. He was Director of CBH Resources Ltd (1998-2010) and is on the Board of Ivanhoe Australia Ltd (ASX:IVA), Silver City Minerals Ltd (ASX:SCI) and Ormil Energy Ltd (ASX:OMX).
Professor Plimer is Australia's best known geologist, has published seven books for the general public and 130 specialist scientific papers, many of which are on tin and tungsten ore deposits. His PhD was on a tungsten-molybdenum-bismuth deposit and, while with North Broken Hill Ltd in the 1980s, he was involved in tin and tungsten exploration. He edited the Encyclopaedia of Geology (Academic Press). He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technical Sciences and Engineering, Fellow of the Geological Society (London) and Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
Professor Plimer brings to TNT Mines his extensive experience in mineral discovery and vast knowledge of economic geology. |
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Michael Beer B.Bus (Acctcy), FCA, ACIS
Managing Director
Mr Beer is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants with initial experience gained with PriceWaterhouseCoopers over a 10 year period. He has also held a range of senior finance and commercial roles with the British Petroleum group in Australia and the United Kingdom, in the finance, oil refining and minerals sectors of that group.
In the past 15 years, Mr Beer has held senior roles within the Corporate Finance departments of several leading Australian stockbrokers, sourcing equity capital for a wide range of mineral and resource companies. He was the Managing Director of a listed public company which successfully built a gold mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Mr Beer was the Victorian State President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in the year 2000, and is currently an Executive Director in the Corporate Department of Octa Phillip Corporate Ltd in Melbourne.
Mr Beer brings to TNT Mines his extensive experience in corporate finance and in the sourcing of equity capital from the stockmarket in Australia and overseas. He has evaluated many resource projects and as Managing Director of a listed ASX gold company he has wide experience in the construction and operation of a gold mine in the Pilbara. This combination of commercial, financial and operating experience will greatly assist TNT Mines as it explores and assesses the development opportunities of its suite of assets. |
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Andrew Drummond B.Sc.(Hons), F.AusIMM, MAIG, MGSA
Non-executive Director
Mr Drummond is a geologist with 40 years of industry experience in exploration, development, mining, management and development capital raising. He has had senior management and/or directorship roles with Zephyr Minerals NL (now Ashburton Minerals NL), Black Range Minerals NL, Westonia Mines Limited (now Catalpa Ltd), the ACM Group, Homestake Gold Australia Ltd, BCD Resources NL and Westgold Resources Limited.
He is currently Non Executive Chairman of Minemakers.
Mr Drummond brings to the Company his extensive experience with many commodities in hardrock and alluvial environments in Australia, New Zealand, The Philippines, Russia, China and Namibia and in company promotion and raising of evaluation and development funds. |
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