MOUNT RIDLEY MINES - Key Persons
Mr Crook is a consulting geologist and company director with 40 years' experience, predominantly in Western Australia. He has worked on a range of commodities including nickel, gold, lithium and caesium, and has led teams with a good discovery record.
He was the Managing Director of Pioneer Resources Limited for 16 years, which discovered the Mt Jewell Gold Deposits, the North Dome Spodumene Deposit and discovered and mined the Sinclair Caesium Deposit. Prior to this he was exploration manager of Heron Resources Limited during the establishment of the North Kalgoorlie Nickel Project, Senior Project Geologist at the Gidgee Gold Mine from drill-out until 500,000oz were poured, and on the discovery team of the Radio Hill Nickel Sulphide Deposit.
Mr Crook is also Managing Director of Charger Metals NL
Job Titles:
- Director & Corporate Adviser of RM Corporate Finance
Mr Le Page is currently a Director & Corporate Adviser of RM Corporate Finance specialising in resources. He is actively involved in a range of corporate initiatives from mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings to valuations, consulting and corporate advisory roles.
Mr Le Page was Head of Research at Morgan Stockbroking Limited (Perth) prior to joining Tolhurst Noall as a Corporate Advisor in July of 1998. As Head of Research, Mr Le Page was responsible for the supervision of all Industrial and Resources Research. As a Resources Analyst, Mr Le Page published detailed research on various mineral exploration and mining companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. The majority of this research involved valuations of both exploration and production assets.
Prior to entering the stockbroking industry, he spent 10 years as an exploration and mining geologist in Australia, Canada and the United States. His experience spans gold and base metal exploration and mining geology, and he has acted as a consultant to private and public companies. This professional experience included the production of both technical and valuation reports for resource companies.
Mr Le Page holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Science and a Masters' Degree in Business Administration from the University of Adelaide, a Bachelor of Applied Science (Hons) from the Curtin University of Technology and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia.
Simon Mitchell is a geologist and finance executive with more than 30 years of resources industry experience in technical and corporate roles including 10 years gold exploration and mine development experience with Normandy NFM, RGC, Goldfields and Aurora Gold in countries as diverse as Australia, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. Mr Mitchell worked for 6 years at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, predominantly in Project Finance, and more than 6 years with Toro Energy as General Manager of Business Development where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings and the engagement of investors worldwide. During 2013-14 Mr. Mitchell was Managing Director of Asiatic Gold Ltd, an unlisted public company with gold exploration projects in South Korea, assets that were subsequently acquired by Southern Gold.
Mr Mitchell was Managing Director of Southern Gold Limited from 2015 to late 2021 and has subsequently joined unlisted new uranium explorer Orpheus Minerals Ltd as Managing Director with an intent to list on ASX in 2022.