Australia’s Mining Monthly — December 2017

Centrex Metals. Hammond became Centrex

CEO in 2013 and played a key role in the

negotiation and completion of two major

Chinese-backed joint ventures.

WITH Malcolm

Brinded opting not to

stand for re-election

as a non-executive

director of BHP, fellow

director Malcolm

Broomhead has been

sweptintoillthe

role of Sustainability

Committee chairman.

Broomhead, a

former managing director

of explosives maker Orica, has been a non-

exectuive director of BHP since 2010.

GRAPHENE expert Dr Andy Goodwin has

joinedFirstGraphitetobeefupitsgraphene

expertise. Goodwin, who was previously

business director of British company homas

Swan & Co’s advanced materials division,

willremainlocatedintheUK,whichwillis

expectedtogiveFirstGraphiteavaluable

presence in the expanding European market.

A MINING executive

withagoodproject

development pedigree,

Vivian Roberts,

has been appointed

director of mining

operationsatHastings

Technology Metals.

Roberts has

more than 30 years’

experience in large

mining operations and was directly involved

in establishing a 55 million tonne per annum

iron ore mine from virgin ground. He has

also been involved in the ramp up and

expansion of several other mining operations

including Prominent Hill, Century mine and

Nity Copper.

ORINOCO Gold has added Joseph Pinto to

its board as a non-executive director.

Pinto has been a major shareholder and

supporterofthecompanyandisalsonon-

executive chairman of Tyranna Resources, a

cornerstone investor in Orinoco.

FORMER Wolf Minerals managing director

Russell Clark has joined Kasbah Resources

as CEO to lead the inalisation of the

assessment, inancing and development of its

Achmmach tin project.

Prior to his Wolf time, Clark was

managing director of magnetite miner

Grange Resources and oversaw its merger

with Australian Bulk Minerals.

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SOUTH32 hasadded
Dr Xiaoling Liu and
KarenWoodtoits
board as independent
non-executive
directors. Liu is a
metallurgical engineer
with more than 26
years’ experience. She
was president and CEO
of Rio Tinto Minerals
from 2011 to 2014 and is a non-executive
director of Newcrest Mining and Iluka
Resources. Wood has held various senior
global roles with BHP, including president
people and president public afairs and was
also the company’s group company secretary.
She is a non-executive director of investment
company Djerriwarrh Investments.

CIMIC Group has rung the changes with
deputy CEO Michael Wright being promoted
toCEOandmanagingdirectoraterhis
former boss Adolfo Valderas opted to take
a role with Spanish engineering giant ACS
Group. Valderas will remain on the CIMIC
boardasanalternatedirector.
With Wright moving up the ladder,
Ignacio Segura has been brought in as deputy
CEO and chief operaging oicer.
Segura is currently CEO of ACS
construction company Dragados.

TECHNOLOGY
service company Qteq
has appointed Perth-
based mining and
corporate governance
specialist Mark
Donovan to its board
as a non-executive
director. Donovan has
held senior legal and
managerial roles with
WMC Resources and BHP and was most
recently head of corporate af airs for BHP’s
Western Australian Iron Ore operations.

IAN Cochrane has taken the chairman’s
gavel at drilling services company Ausdrill,

replacing Terry O’Connor. O’Connor has

been an independent director and chairman

of Ausdrill since 1993. He was also chairman

of the remuneration committee and a

member of the audit and risk committee

during his tenure. Cochrane, who has been

O’Connor’s deputy, joined Ausdrill in 2015.

Hehadawell-respectedtrackrecordasa

mergers and acquisition lawyer prior to

retiring from practice in 2013.

CHANGES to Metso’s

operating model and

organisation are taking

shapewiththreekey

appointments.

Mikko Keto has

been named president,

Mineral Services. He

has been senior vice-

president of Metso’s

spare parts business

and was previously

senior vice-president

of its performance

services line.

Markku Simula

has been appointed

president, Aggregates

Equipment. He has

worked as senior vice-

president aggregates

and been a member of Metso’s Minerals

Capital business area management team

since 2016.

Sami Takaluoma

has been appointed

president, Minerals

Consumables. He has

been the vice-president

of Metso’s Nordics

market area since

2014 and was general

manager of the UK &

Ireland market area

from 2010 to 2014.

BEN Hammond has been appointed

managing director to go with his CEO role

at phosphate, potash and base metals player

Institutional focus

Mikko Keto

Mark Donovan

Malcolm

Broomhead

AFTER retiring as chairman of Alliance Resources and Alkane

Resources, mining engineer John Dunlop has been elected a

director of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

He will start his three-year director’s term in January.

AusIMM directors are elected by vote of the members at large.

h is is Dunlop’s third term on the AusIMM board. He

previously served from 2001 to 2006 and received the institute’s

Beryl Jacka award in 2007.

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Markku Simula

Sami Takaluoma

Dr Xiaoling Liu

John Dunlop