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 Hannington B,Sc. (Geophysics), LLB
Managing Director
Mr Hannington is a geophysicist and lawyer with 20 years industry experience working throughout Australia and North America.
Mr Hannington has supervised a diverse range of exploration and mining projects from project generation and project acquisition through to exploration, evaluation drilling and production. Mr Hannington has held key roles in financing and managing operations. He was the inaugural Managing Director of Alchemy Resources Limited, a publicly listed gold and copper exploration company in Western Australia and a founding director of Talisman Mining Limited.
Mr Hannington's career includes roles with Geopeko, North Limited and Oxiana Limited.
Mr Hannington brings to TNT Mines his extensive experience in building geological teams and taking exploration projects through evaluation and development to production. |
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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 Managing Director and CEO of Minemakers. Previously, Mr Drummond was a Non-executive Director of Bonaparte Diamond Mines NL prior to its takeover by 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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Neville Bergin B.Sc. (Mining), ACSM, DipCSM
Non-executive Director
Mr Bergin is a Mining Engineer and a graduate of the Camborne School of Mines in the United Kingdom and has over 30 years of experience in the mining industry.
Mr Bergin has worked in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand in underground and open pit mines. His career has included experience in gold, nickel, zinc and industrial minerals operations in both technical and operational roles. He has spent much of the last 15 years in senior operational and corporate management roles.
Mr Bergin is currently Minemakers' General Manager - Projects Development and recently became the non-executive Chairman of BCD Resources NL.
Previous employers include WMC, ACM (Waihi Gold), Pasminco, Perseverance Corporation and Jubilee Mines. Immediately prior to joining Minemakers he was Vice President - Head of Operations for Gold Fields Australia. He was also a Non-executive Director of Northern Star Resources for two years.
Mr Bergin brings to TNT Mines his extensive experience in feasibility and permitting, mine development and operational and company management. |
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Michael Beer B.Bus (Acctcy), FCA, ACIS
Non-executive 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 a Senior Manager of Phillip Capital Pty Ltd; being the corporate finance arm of Intersuisse Limited, stockbrokers, 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 has had hands on 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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