NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

Mr Brian Rear AWASM, MSc (London), DIC; MBL (South Africa)
NON-EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN • AUSTRALIAN

Brian Rear has a distinguished career in mining spanning over 32 years of technical and managerial experience in Australia, New Guinea, United Kingdom, Europe, South Africa and Indonesia.

Mr Rear is a graduate from the Western Australian School of Mines in metallurgy. He is a graduate of the Royal School of Mines London, holding a Diploma of Imperial Collage and an MSc (Lon) in mineral process design from the University of London . Brian holds a Masters Degree in Business Leadership from the University of South Africa ’s School of Business Leadership.

Mr David Vilensky

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR • AUSTRALIAN

David Vilensky (54) is a practising lawyer and managing partner of Perth law firm Bowen Buchbinder Vilensky.  He has more than 25 years of experience in the fields of corporate and business law and in commercial and corporate management.  Mr Vilensky is also regarded as a specialist on Trade Practice Law.  Mr Vilensky was on the board of listed telecommunications carrier Swiftel Ltd for 3 years where he was also the chairman of its audit committee, and remained on the board of People Telecom Ltd after its successful $40m merger with Swiftel Ltd in 2005.  Mr Vilensky acts for a number of listed and unlisted companies and is the immediate past chairman of Law Australasia, an independent association of Australian and New Zealand law firms.

Mr Vilensky is the chairman of Prodemas International Ltd, a public unlisted company which provides project management services to the global resources industry and is also the chairman of Latin Resources Pty Ltd, a company with exploration interests in Peru.

 Mr Simon Francis Durack B.Comm, Post Grad Dip Bus, CA, FCIS  

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR • AUSTRALIAN

Mr. Durack is a Chartered Accountant and practicing Company Secretary, with over 28 years commercial experience gained working in Australia, South East Asia and Europe.

Mr. Durack's commercial experience includes time worked in the Accounting profession with Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). He has also held many senior financial and secretarial roles with both large public and private entities. In these roles, Mr. Durack has been responsible for providing managerial, secretarial and financial advisory input. Mr. Durack has also acted as resident Director for several offshore companies with operations in Australia.

 Mr Richard Leonard Procter  BSc Eng; CEng; MBA; MIMMM

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR • AUSTRALIAN

Richard Procter is a mining engineer with over 30 years broad international experience covering corporate, operations, contracting, consulting and project developments. He has held senior industry positions that have demonstrated leadership and management of base and precious metal mining concerns; development of bankable feasibility studies and their conversion into mining operations; managed teams undertaking mining asset evaluations and valuations including technical and operational audits (encompassing complete mining asset due diligence and expert reports).

Richard has also been involved in many mining operation start-ups (both small and large) - as well as the re-engineering of large ongoing operations.

Richard has, and continues to provide, technical and strategic planning advice to both mining and industrial organisations.

MANAGEMENT

Mr Willie Sweta M.Sc (Met), Dipl (Min. Eng)
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, MWEMBESHI RESOURCES • ZAMBIAN

Mr. Sweta is a very well known and respected person within the mining industry of Zambia as well as within the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Mr Sweta’s extensive work experience within the mining industry includes Roan Selection Trust (RST) and Anglo- American (Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines), Noranda Mines (Gaspe Copper Mines, Murdochville , Quebec ) and Department of Energy, Minerals and Resources (EMR, Canada ) and Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd (ZCCM). Mr Sweta has a M.Sc, Metallurgical Engineering, from Leningrad University , USSR and also gained a Professional Development (Min. Eng) diploma from McGill University, Canada .