People on the move: Excelsior Gold, Image Resources, Ausdrill, Sandvik, Atlas Iron
30 May 2012
David Hamlyn.
EXPERIENCED Western Australian goldfields geologist and mine manager David Hamlyn is now managing director of ASX-listed Excelsior Gold.
Hamlyn was also previously managing director of Atom Energy, technical director and CEO of West Australian Metals, exploration director of Australasian Gold Mines, and a director of Austin Engineering. He joined the Excelsior board in May 2010.
Peter Davies.
Sakalidis has made much of his ability to predictively identify VHM deposits missed by other explorers (read ‘large mineral sands companies). His role is now said to be focused on defining further high-grade resources in the North Perth Basin and “globally”.
Davies, who was previously general manager of Tiwest’s Chandala mineral sands processing and synthetic rutile operation in the basin, and director European Operations for Kerr-McGee Chemicals/Tronox, became Image’s project manager for the North Perth Basin assets earlier this year. He is heading a team made up largely of highly experienced former mineral sands executives and managers that Sakalidis has managed to assemble to take Image from explorer to producer. The company has a suite of promising projects approaching development phases.
“Work on the updating of the August 2011 scoping study and development of concepts for fast tracking project implementation is progressing encouragingly with indications suggesting the North Perth Project will outperform the scoping study projections,” Davies said.
The company expects to announce results of the work in June.
AUSTRALIAN drilling contractor and manufacturer Ausdrill has made former MACA CEO Chris Tuckwell chief operating officer, a newly created role at the company.
Construction engineer Tuckwell returns to Ausdrill after previously working for the company between 1994 and 2007. His career in mining spans 28 years.
Ausdrill said Tuckwell would oversee Ausdrill’s operations in Africa, “providing over-arching leadership to the company’s West African team, led by John Kavanagh, and East African team, led by Chris Gall”.
SWEDISH headquartered Sandvik has appointed a new chief financial officer, Emil Nilsson.
Replacing Ola Salmen, Nilsson’s start date as CFO and executive vice president “will be defined over the coming months”, Sandvik said. But Salmen is sticking around until year-end “to ensure a good and smooth transition”.
A Stockholm University business administration and economics degree holder, 40-year-old Nilsson is currently head of telecommunications group Ericsson’s Central Europe customer Unit in Vienna, Austria. He has also been CFO/COO of Ericsson North America and CFO of Ericsson Brazil.
CHIEF commercial officer Mark Hancock has joined the Atlas Iron board as an executive director. The company, aiming to grow from six-million-tonnes-per-annum iron ore producer to 46Mtpa by 2017, said Hancock had been pivotal to its run of mergers, acquisitions and asset disposals. He was also on the “front line of Atlas’ iron ore sales activity, which has enabled the company to consistently maximise its revenue and profit margins”.
Atlas has also strengthened its board with the appointment of Geoff Simpson as an independent non-executive director. Simpson is managing partner of the Perth office of global law firm Allen & Overy, and global head of the firm’s mining group.
Also in the May 30 - June 5, 2012 edition
- AFRICA
- DiamondCorp sets up finance for Lace
- Geopolitical forces reshaping West African view
- Local and global pressures take toll on Eastplats
- Play time for Papillon
- ASIA DESK
- Momentum shifts
- AustMETS
- At your service
- Manufacturing growth
- CABBIE'S CORNER
- Build it, and they will come
- COAL
- Research targets dragline cost
- CONTRACTING
- Holding back to move forward
- EVENTS
- CEEC aims to find answers
- METS sector to feature at Minerals Week; plus updated mining events diary 2012
- Truckless in Bali
- EXPLORATION
- Highlands highs and lows
- Syndicate formed, now for the drilling
- FINANCE
- Nautilus cops double whammy
- Venturing out not for faint-hearted
- GOLD
- Kimberley gold story has familiar tone
- HEAVY METAL
- And Barloworld makes five
- ETF trucks bound for Brazil
- Heavy Metal in brief: ABB, Keech, Ludman
- INSIGHT
- Digging deeper reveals greater riches
- INTERCEPTS
- $55M raising to get Namakwa cash positive this year
- $6.4B Alpha project faces new environmental hurdles
- $6.4B Alpha project go ahead unlikely for months
- 94% underground upgrade for WSA’s Spotted Quoll
- AmmLeach pilot plant produces first metal
- Anglo Asian posts 750,000oz maiden gold resource
- Aurizon confident of more at its Joanna gold project
- Balamara picks up the pace in Poland
- Barrick sacks CEO over share declines
- Cacata partners find scope for hope
- Cameroon miners close in on Mbalam vision
- Capital costs up, production costs down for Orosur
- Cat acquires major Chinese manufacturer
- Cleveland takes up Brazilian iron ore prospect
- Cobham cruises to new FIFO heights
- Condor moves to large scale gold mine economics
- Contractor buys into 10moz Conrad silver project
- Contractor disputes new Gold Ridge claims
- Coolgardie rewards modern explorer
- Cortona wraps up Dargues Reef approvals
- Court appeal halts Ebenezer coal project
- Crusader set to lift Brazilian gold resource
- Diavik diamonds shine for Harry Winston
- Didipio gold/copper production end of 2012
- Discovery switches on Boseto concentrator
- Epic journey leads to McPhees
- Ferrum gains Moonlight mining right
- First Quebec Lithium carbonate due in 2013
- FMG secures $490M expansion funding
- Former Australian minister appointed to Tiaro Coal
- Funding falldown threatens Integrated Resources deal
- GBP8M funding boosts Argentine projects
- Giant graphite find for Energizer
- Gippsland makes late start to Egypt tin project
- Goldplat studies new recovery
- Grades support Integra’s Randalls expansion
- Greenland metal inventory rises again
- GSZ reports large Wolfsberg lithium resource
- Heap leach option for Parral gold project
- Hunan takes 19.9% of Siburan
- International Minerals lines up Balmoral funding
- Kula awards Woodlark feasibility engineering studies
- LionGold offers $US7M for Bolivian gold project
- Major drills up record earnings
- Masbate hits record after upgrade
- Metaliko lifts Goongarrie Lady’s skirts
- Mill failure hits San Gold
- Mine purchase to advance calciner technology
- Minemakers seeks takeover intervention
- Miner takes the lead on environmental protection
- Minera wins community support for Peru mine
- Miranda gets permit for Burnside coal mine
- Modder East strike illegal: Gold One
- Modder East workers defy return order
- Nevada plant signs to treat carbon stockpile
- New Age opts for long-term Colombian option
- New direction for tech firm APA
- Nickel equity deal repays ENK loans
- Nordic head for Nordic growth
- Norsk confirms Kurri Kurri smelter shutdown
- Not at their Wits’ end
- NRW wins more Fortescue civil works
- OGL upgrades Bremer coal reserves
- OM wins Bootu Creek damages claim
- Paragon wins time for Lesotho exploration
- Paulsens moves towards a grade jump
- Peninsular posts record Raub production
- Pilbara partners disagree on study status
- Project specialist to drive Wilcherry Hill
- QMC, Ivanhoe agree on White Range deals
- QR tackles high staffing levels, bureaucracy
- Radar deal progresses Central Yilgarn iron project
- Russell takes CAMAR executive position
- Safety alert shuts Vale’s Qld mine
- Santa Fe’s takeover bid falls short – again
- Sihayo gold project in Indo upgraded
- Sky Chrome ramp-up heads higher
- Slow progress for Arian’s Mexican silver project
- Study supports Aspire’s Mongolian mine
- Study supports Cerro Resources gold-silver mine
- Substantial upgrade at Roper Bar iron ore project
- SXE wins Yandi powerline construction
- Talga settles on Swedish graphite licences
- Two new rail corridors for Queensland’s coalfields
- Underground find to boost Troy output
- Upgrade lifts Marengo’s confidence
- VANE takes over management of Wate uranium project
- Vector push for Gwendolyn commissioning 2013 new year
- Vista expands its Mt Todd vision
- Wah Nam moves to mop up Brockman shares
- West Pilbara study waits on port decisions
- Whitehaven powers up new Narrabri longwall
- Wolf raises $5M for UK tungsten project
- MINING
- Mindoro looks to build Philippines profile
- Sukari Hill plan B resonates with analyst
- MINING INTELLIGENCE
- Okay, so where do we go from here?
- MINING IT
- Automated monitoring delivers fine results at Paraburdoo
- Dispatch to mine owner: more training needed
- TECHNOLOGY
- ABB China deploys palletising robots
- Imdex adds drilling horsepower to DET CRC
- VIEW FROM THE WEST END
- Ball gazing
