TNC Delivers First Oxide Ore at Wallace North, Cloncurry Copper Venture

Administration Staff 

Ian McAleese – Government Chairman

Ian McAleese labored as a mine geologist at Mt Isa, Jabiluka and Bougainville for 15 years earlier than transferring into copper focus advertising on Bougainville. On returning to Australia in 1987, he labored initially as a mining analyst and subsequently as a portfolio supervisor specialising on funding in mining corporations for quite a lot of giant funding establishments. McAleese then returned to the mining business in enterprise improvement and investor relations roles for quite a lot of coal mining corporations, together with Macarthur Coal and Whitehaven Coal. After retiring from Whitehaven Coal in late 2020, he joined Duke Exploration as a non-executive director simply previous to the Duke Exploration IPO. In December 2022 he turned the non-executive chair of True North Copper.

Bevan Jones – Managing Director

Bevan Jones is a seasoned operations officer providing practically 30 years of expertise in mine administration throughout a various vary of commodities and has a confirmed monitor document in directing enterprise enchancment initiatives and operational transformation. Jones’ earlier roles embrace chief working officer at Karora Assets (TSX:KRR), in addition to common supervisor of Gold Fields Restricted’s (JSE:GFI) St Ives Gold Mine in WA, the place he executed transformative progress methods and delivered distinctive operational outcomes. Most not too long ago, Jones was the managing director at Brisbane-based Further Mining Options, the place he performed a number one function in establishing the corporate specializing in enterprise transformation and operational excellence. Jones gained worldwide operational expertise as chief working officer of BCM Group Worldwide in West Africa, common supervisor of the Wetar Copper Mine in Indonesia and common supervisor of the Hidden Valley Mine in Papua New Guinea, in addition to mining supervisor of Barrick Gold’s Lumwana Copper Mine in Zambia.

Craig Gouws – Chief Monetary Officer

Craig Gouws, a chartered accountant, has intensive Australian and worldwide expertise as a CFO and board of director with a demonstrated historical past of efficiently main monetary operations throughout various industries and worldwide markets. Gouws holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Publish Graduate Diploma in Accounting from the College of Cape City and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a member in South Africa.

Peter Brown – Chief Working Officer

Peter Brown has held senior administration roles within the sources sector, each domestically and internationally, together with latest positions at Spherical Oak Minerals and Diatreme Assets the place he oversaw undertaking improvement and operations. Brown has various expertise and a powerful monitor document that demonstrates his capacity to efficiently ship tasks and foster optimistic relationships with all undertaking stakeholders.

He has managed discovery packages for gold, copper and chromite in South America, Japan, Vietnam and Indonesia, together with authorities and neighborhood relations. He additionally drove enhancements and supplied coaching in mine geology, useful resource analysis and mine technical companies at distinguished mines reminiscent of Mt Muro Gold Mine, George Fisher Mine and Peak Gold Mines. Moreover, Brown performed a major function in reviving deserted satellite tv for pc tasks at Peak Gold Mines.

Different achievements embrace efficiently re-permitting and developing the 1-Moz Toka Tindung Gold Mine in Indonesia as director of Indonesian corporations and common supervisor at Archipelago Assets; main the allowing, engineering redesign and development of the 0.8-Moz Mt Carlton Gold Mine in Queensland; the profitable improvement of Mt Carlton and Pajingo tasks, which contributed to the institution of Evolution Mining; and recommissioning and creating a number of mining tasks within the Mount Isa and Cloncurry area.

Sven Sewell – Sustainability & Internet Zero Supervisor

Sven Sewell has over 25 years’ expertise working in a variety of environmental fields, together with environmental consulting, environmental regulation and throughout the business.

For the 15 years previous to becoming a member of TNC, Sewell held senior environmental positions at a number of working mines throughout northern Australia. At these operations, he was usually probably the most senior atmosphere, chargeable for all elements of allowing, compliance, rehabilitation and common environmental administration. Sewell’s expertise in northern Australian mines contains a number of new and established gold, uranium and bauxite operations.

Sewell holds a BSc (with honours) in environmental science.

Mark Brown – Common Supervisor, Cloncurry Operations

With greater than 30 years of home and worldwide mining business expertise, Mark Brown affords a complete ability set grounded in sensible useful resource sector execution and invaluable management expertise. His profession journey has been marked by a dedication to security, operational excellence, and fostering optimistic work cultures.

Brown has held a wide range of senior management operational roles all through his profession, overseeing numerous elements of mining operations. He has intensive expertise throughout all mining regulatory and compliance elements and has experience in well being and security administration together with emergency response, disaster administration, contractor administration, and complete incident investigations.

Michelle Ellis – Cloncurry Initiatives Exploration Supervisor

Michelle Ellis retains over 15 years’ mineral exploration, useful resource and mining expertise predominantly in iron-oxide-copper-gold deposits and terrains throughout South Australia and Northwest Queensland.

Over the previous 11 years, she has actively explored a variety of commodities and deposit types all through the Mount Isa Inlier.

Ellis has an MSc in financial geology, MSc in environmental administration and BSc in utilized science – geoscience, and is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

Rhonda Freeman – Group Supervisor (Human Assets)

Rhonda Freeman has greater than 18 years’ expertise attracting high expertise, fostering worker improvement and serving to organisations develop protected and supportive work environments. She has labored extensively throughout the useful resource sector, together with for big national-wide drilling corporations.

Freeman has labored for mining corporations throughout a wide range of geological settings together with brown coal, black coal, uranium, mineral sands and oil & fuel. She brings a various ability set particular to the useful resource sector, having labored throughout all industrial elements of drilling operations together with as an exploration supervisor.