Stephen is an experienced and internationally recognised metallurgical engineer with nearly 30 years of postgraduate experience. Stephen has extensive industrial experience in the field of mineral processing, gained whilst employed at Mount Isa Mines Limited, working in both the copper and lead/zinc streams. He also has extensive industrial experience in flotation plant practice in a diverse range of operations in Australia, Asia, Africa, North and South America. Stephen works closely with the minerals and energy industries and has an excellent track record in successful technology transfer to industry. A recent independent review of a major project (RMD STEM Report titled “Evaluation of the AMIRA Project over the period 1988-2006”), of which Stephen was the Project Leader/Chief Investigator, demonstrated a total value to industry of $436M from delivered and expected gains. Stephen has extensive leadership experience and capacity to shape large scale and innovative research initiatives involving multiple relationships. Stephen has an extensive and sustained success in obtaining grants playing a lead role in leadership, proposal formulation, and negotiation, and has forged a range of industry partnerships at national and international levels for more than 20 years.

Maree has an Honours degree in Economic Geology from JCUNQ and more than 20 years’ experience in mining, exploration, and resource evaluation geology. After brief periods with Lynch Mining and WMC, Maree spent several years with Placer Dome, contributing to a number of feasibility stage gold projects, including Osborne and Mt Rawdon, gaining experience in project management, 3-D modelling, QA/QC, data collection protocols, database management, and government and community liaison. After a break Maree returned to the industry in 2006 with Golder Associates and moved to AMC in 2011 where she assists with project reviews, orebody characterisation and resource estimation.

James Carpenter Senior Resource Geologist, Technical Support and Studies BAppSc (Hons), MGeostats, MAusIMM (CP) James is a geologist with 16 years of technical and operational experience. He has experience with seafloor mineral exploration and evaluation in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands as well as open-pit metalliferous mining. Commodity experience includes narrow vein gold, massive sulphide and porphyry copper, lead, zinc, silver, uranium, coal and bauxite. He has previously worked with Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Nautilus Minerals and Xstract Mining Consultants. James commenced employment with PanAust in June 2015, and was promoted to his current role in December 2017.

Whilst my undergraduate education consists of a Bachler of Science in Geology (currently completing a Grad Dip in Mining Engineering), I have spent more of my career working within mining engineering groups, mine planning, scheduling and underground geotechnical. I feel this has given me an analytical approach to solving problems in the mining industry. I try to focus on using objective, quantitative data in this problem solving process, and this analytical approach has been conducive continuous improvement projects I have lead, which I have leveraged to deliver value