Board of Directors
Bob Richardson - Non-Executive Director (Chairman of the Board)
Geoff Eupene - Executive Director
Peter Walker - Non-Executive Director
Malcolm Smartt - Finance Director
Sia Hok Kiang - Non-Executive Director (Appointed on 6 August 2013)
Bob Cleary - Non-Executive Director (Resigned on 24 February 2013)
Senior Management
Geoff Eupene - Exploration Director
Malcolm Smartt - Finance Director & Company Secretary
Dr Tony Chamberlain - Chief Operating Officer (Appointed on 14 January 2013)
Directors Profiles
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Bob Richardson Non-Executive Director (Chairman of the Board) |
Bob Richardson, B.Sc, B.E(Hons), MAusIMM, MASEG, has 40 years experience in mineral exploration management, geophysics and exploration technology. During 15 years with the Peko-Wallsend Groups as Chief Geophysicist and later Exploration Manager, he supervised all geophysical work carried out by Peko-Wallsend in the Alligator Rivers Uranium Province during the Ranger discovery and resource development period. During this period Bob and his team developed a leading-edge understanding of the application of geophysical methods to uranium exploration. He was co-founder and Managing Director of Austirex AerialSurveys that became an international airborne geophysical contractor. He co-founded Lachlan Resources NL in 1983 and PlatSearch NL in 1986 and was Managing Director of PlatSeach until 2010. He was a Non-executive Director of WPG Resources from its formation in 2004 until November 2011.
Bob was appointed Chairman of Crossland Uranium Mines Ltd on 15 March 2012.
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Geoff Eupene Executive Director |
Geoff Eupene, B.Sc(Hons), FAusIMM, CPGeo, is a Darwin- based geologist. Geoff spent the 1969 field season, his first after graduation from the University of Queensland, looking for uranium in the East Kimberley. In 1970 he joined Geopeko as they started their field work at Ranger. As Mine Geologist, he logged every hole drilled into the Ranger No1 orebody, interpreted the geology, and developed a resource estimate that agreed closely with the total material mined over the following decades.
In 1976, he headed the team that discovered the Ranger 68 deposit beneath the Magela floodplains. Geoff worked for Geopeko for over ten years before founding a consulting practice in Darwin in 1980.
Eupene Exploration Enterprises Pty Ltd has provided advice and services to many uranium explorers, and assisted in the development of several other mining projects in the NT, including Mount Bonnie silver/ gold deposit, Tanami gold, Goodall gold, Rustlers Roost gold, and Woodcutters base metal projects. Geoff has also acquired a depth of experience in SE Asia.
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Peter Walker Non-Executive Director |
Peter Walker, B.Juris, Ll.B, FAICD, is a Darwin based lawyer who has practised in the resource industry for over 30 years. He has long experience with land access issues including the special situations that exist in the Northern Territory. Peter acted for Peko EZ (a joint venture between Peko-Wallsend Operations Limited and Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia Limited) on permitting matters for the Ranger project, and for Pancontinental Mining Limited. He also assisted Uranerz Energy Corporation and Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC), and other explorers and miners, with NT access and development matters. Peter has been a director of several companies including Australian Diamond Exploration NL, which discovered and developed the Merlin diamond mine.
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Malcolm Smartt Finance Director |
Mal Smartt, BA (Accounting), Grad Dip Corporate Management, FCPA, FCIS, FCIM is a Corporate Consultant to listed and unlisted public companies. He is a qualified accountant and company secretary having had considerable experience in Directorial, Financial and Company Secretarial roles with a number of listed companies in the resource sector in Australia, South East Asia and Africa over the last 25 years. He retired from the RAAF in 1986 as a Squadron Leader with considerable administrative and management experience.
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Sia Hok Kiang Non-Executive Director (Appointed on 6 August 2013) |
Mr Sia is Managing Director of the successful Malaysian private mining company, Malaco Mining Sdn. Bhd.
He is a graduate of the University of Malaya in Applied Geology, an economic geologist with more than 30 years world-wide experience.
He is an active member of the Malaysian Geological Society and a Council Member of the Malaysian Chamber of Mines.
Mr Sia has a solid business reputation throughout Asia, with useful contacts in several Asian countries. He has extensive experience in bulk alluvial mining in Malaysia, including the extraction of the rare earth minerals xenotime and monazite as by - products of tin mining."
Crossland believes that Mr Sia's experience is very appropriate for Crossland's Charley Creek Alluvial Rare Earth Project, which is also based on the extraction of monazite and xenotime from alluvial material, and he will assist Crossland to develop this project and deliver early cash flow.
Management Team Profiles
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Geoff Eupene Exploration Director |
Geoff Eupene, B.Sc(Hons), FAusIMM, CPGeo, is a Darwin- based geologist. Geoff spent the 1969 field season, his first after graduation from the University of Queensland, looking for uranium in the East Kimberley. In 1970 he joined Geopeko as they started their field work at Ranger. As Mine Geologist, he logged every hole drilled into the Ranger No1 orebody, interpreted the geology, and developed a resource estimate that agreed closely with the total material mined over the following decades.
In 1976, he headed the team that discovered the Ranger 68 deposit beneath the Magela floodplains. Geoff worked for Geopeko for over ten years before founding a consulting practice in Darwin in 1980.
Eupene Exploration Enterprises Pty Ltd has provided advice and services to many uranium explorers, and assisted in the development of several other mining projects in the NT, including Mount Bonnie silver/ gold deposit, Tanami gold, Goodall gold, Rustlers Roost gold, and Woodcutters base metal projects. Geoff has also acquired a depth of experience in SE Asia.
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Malcolm Smartt Finance Director & Company Secretary |
Mal Smartt, BA (Accounting), Grad Dip Corporate Management, FCPA, FCIS, FCIM is a Corporate Consultant to listed and unlisted public companies. He is a qualified accountant and company secretary having had considerable experience in Directorial, Financial and Company Secretarial roles with a number of listed companies in the resource sector in Australia, South East Asia and Africa over the last 25 years. He retired from the RAAF in 1986 as a Squadron Leader with considerable administrative and management experience.
| Dr Tony Chamberlain Chief Operating Officer (Appointed on 14 January 2013) |
Dr Chamberlain has strong project management experience following 18 years in the petroleum and mineral resource sectors involved in strategic planning, project development and metallurgical flow sheet design associated with uranium, nickel, copper, cobalt and gold projects for a range of companies including WMC, BHP and Clean TeQ Mining. He has been responsible for the delivery of several feasibility studies and implementation of capital projects including an expansion at Kwinana Nickel Refinery.
He will be responsible for the management of the Charley Creek Alluvial REE Project [Crossland (55%)/Pancontinental Uranium Corporation(45%)], through the delivery of the Scoping Study currently in progress, and a Feasibility Study expected to proceed throughout 2013 to examine the development of a mining and processing operation at Charley Creek.
Dr Chamberlain is familiar with the Charley Creek project having been previously involved in providing technical input to the current process flowsheet.
He holds a PhD (Metallurgy) from Curtin University, in addition to graduate degrees in Metallurgy and Applied Chemistry.
updated 20th November, 2013
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