ORION MINERALS LIMITED - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director
- Non Executive Director
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Chairman of the Board of Directors
- Chartered Accountant
- Director
Denis is a Chartered Accountant with extensive experience in the management of exploration and mining companies. Denis founded Tanami Gold NL in 1994 and was involved with the Company as Managing Director and then Chairman and Non-Executive Director until 2012. Prior to founding Tanami Gold NL, Denis was the Finance Director of the Metana Minerals NL group. During the past 36 years, Denis has gained considerable experience in corporate finance and operations management of exploration and mining companies.
Errol Smart - CEO, Managing Director
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Director
- Managing Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
Errol is a geologist, registered for JORC purposes and has more than 28 years of industry experience across all aspects of exploration, mine development and operations with experience in precious and base metals. Errol has held position in Anglogold, Cluff Mining, Metallon Gold, Clarity Minerals LionGold Corporation and African Stellar Holdings. Errol's senior executive roles have been on several boards of companies listed on both the TSX and ASX and currently serves as a Director on the Board of the Minerals Council of South Africa.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Non Executive Director
Godfrey is the former chief executive officer of Anglo American plc's Thermal Coal business, where his responsibilities included oversight over the company's manganese interests in the joint venture with BHP. Until August 2012, Godfrey was an executive director of Anglo American South Africa, prior to which he held the positions finance director and chief operating officer. He was also chairman and chief executive of Anglo American Zimbabwe Limited and served on a number of Anglo American executive committees and operating boards, including Kumba Iron Ore, Anglo American Platinum, Highveld Steel & Vanadium and Mondi South Africa.
Louw holds a BSc Geology Honours degree from the University of Stellenbosch. He started his career as a geologist with Gold Fields of South Africa, then worked as an exploration consultant for Anglo American. He served as technical director on the boards of two junior exploration companies before joining Vedanta Zinc International. Louw specialises in structural and exploration geology and was part of the team that discovered the 60 Mt Gamsberg East Zinc Depositin 2005, which is one of the highlights of his career. Other notable achievements include the discovery and drill out of the 250,000oz Byumba Gold deposit in Rwanda in 2008.
Marcus has over 30 years' experience in mining and minerals exploration, initially as a geologist in the South African gold mining sector, and more recently in senior general management positions in the junior exploration sector.
Graduate Mechanical Engineer, Engineer's Certificate of Competency for Mines & Works, with 40 years' experience in Mining. Began his career in the Anglovaal gold mines, with time in the deep-level mines in the West of South Africa and the gold mines in Mpumalanga. Previously held positions at senior management level in Junior Gold Mining Operations in Ghana and Zimbabwe.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Non Executive Director
Mark has 13 years experience working with entities in Australia, including 8 years with Dominion Mining. He previously worked with NM Rothschild & Sons Limited for the London mining project, as part of the finance team where he was responsible for assessing mining projects globally. He later moved ot the investment banking team at UBS, where his focus was global mergers and acquisitions, and equity and debt financing. He also ran the EMEA mining team at UBS, later joining Tembo Capital in 2015 as investment director.
Martin is an FCPA, highly experienced in exploration, mine development and operations. Prior to his role at Orion, Martin worked closely with a number of companies, to identify and assess exploration, development and mining opportunities, evaluate and arrange various alternatives for exploration, development and mining activities and develop and implement financial strategies. Martin was CFO, Business Development Manager and Company Secretary of Perseverance Corporation and was a key member of the executive team that evaluated the sulphide mineralisation at the Fosterville Gold Mine; an initiative that led to the discovery and definition of more than 3M ounces of gold and the funding for the development of the mine and processing plant to exploit those resources.
Job Titles:
- Group Corporate Social Responsibility Advisor
Nelson studied chemical engineering at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Nelson is currently undertaking the final phase of his Post Graduate Diploma in Management at the University of Cape Town. As an advanced policy scholar of science and technology, he served on the policy unit of the governing party in South Africa prior to the first democratic elections. His professional career started at Sasol Petroleum as a gasification process controller and then a learner official at Anglo American/De Beers. He is also the founder and trustee of the Mosiapoa Family Trust, a private and investment equity company in the resources sector with assets featured on the JSE.
Pam has a BCom (Accounting) and 15 years' experience in the finance field. Roles held include Financial Controller, Finance and Admin Manager, Assistant Accountant and Corporate Accountant. Experience in other industries such as industrial hardware and health care, has provided exposure to many aspects of finance which lead to the design and successful implementation of processes that streamlined daily work flow and reporting while connecting work sites within Australia.
who served his Articles of Clerkship at Ernst & Young. Peet has 23 years' experience, predominantly in the mining and manufacturing sectors, including various senior finance and commercial positions at Jubilee Group Metals, Murray & Roberts, Master Drilling, Samancor Chrome, Anglo Platinum and ARM-Norilsk JV, Nkomati Nickel Mines.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Non Executive Director
- Senior Executive
Philip started his career in 1981 with Anglovaal Mining Corporation. During his career he worked for a number of companies including Anglogold Ashanti, Kalgold, Harmony Gold Mining Co Ltd, Deloitte and Anooraq Resources Corporation. Philip has accumulated significant operational experience over the last 40 years on a number of different mines and has distinguished himself as an expert in finding innovative solutions for complex problems.
Philip has served as a senior executive for listed mining companies since 1996. He was Operations Director for Harmony Gold Mining Co Ltd, and in 2008 joined Atlatsa Resources Corporation, a public company listed on the TSX-Venture Exchange, Amex and the JSE, in the role as President and Chief Executive Officer, a position he held until March 2011. Thereafter, Philip took up the position as Chief Executive Officer of Witwatersrand Consolidated Gold Company in 2011 with the objective of taking it from exploration into production. Witwatersrand Consolidated Gold Company was subsequently acquired by Sibanye Gold at the end of March 2014.
Philip joined Clover Alloys (SA) Pty Ltd in 2014 when he took over the reigns as Chief Executive Officer. At that time Clover Alloys had a single wash plant with an annual capacity of 24,000 t/annum. During 2015, it increased its processing capacity to 270,000 t/annum by building a new processing plant in the Kroondal area. During 2019, Clover Alloys successfully acquired the Lanxess chrome mine in Kroondal and took a loss-making operation to a profitable business in the first year of ownership, whilst establishing it in the bottom quartile of cost producers. Clover Alloys has continued to grow its processing capacity, which now stands at more than 1.5 million t/annum.
Job Titles:
- Group Financial Controller
Pieter holds a BCom (Management Accounting) and DipICIMA. Pieter has 18 years' experience in finance team leadership and management in mining and exploration in Cote d'ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia and South Africa. Pieter has implemented and operated real-time web-based financial control systems for companies across the African continent. He has also developed various funding models, applied for fund raising, budgeting and operational control purposes. Most recently, Pieter has worked with Taurus Gold as group financial controller, providing leadership within the finance team and management reporting for the Taurus Gold Group. Prior to that he was the finance unit manager for Evraz Highveld & Vanadium's Mapochs Mine and group management accountant for Clarity Capital Group.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Non Executive Director
- Global Mining Executive
Tom is a highly experienced global mining executive who served more than 11 years working for the BHP Billiton Group in various senior managerial roles, including that of chief financial officer. He also held senior roles in strategy and business development, and served as the project manager for the merger integration transaction between BHP Limited and Billiton. After leaving BHP Billiton in 2006, Tom joined Warrior Coal Investments, where he was part of the executive team which established the portfolio of assets which became the Optimum Group of companies.