Key Personnel

 

Bruce Wedderburn

Chemical Engineer with 30 years experience in the resources industry, with expertise in business development, operations management and technology commercialisation. Specific experience in nickel, copper, cobalt, uranium, manganese and the platinum group metals.

 

Phil Hunt

Chemical engineer with over 30 years experience in the minerals industry with experience in operations management, business development, technical management and review. Specific experience in nickel, cobalt, copper and gold. Principal consultant with PR Hunt and Associates.

 

Brett Crossley

Hydrometallurgist with 24 years experience, with particular expertise in process development, specialising in nickel and cobalt hydrometallurgy. Extensive nickel laterite experience developed since 1995. Specific experience in nickel, copper, cobalt, gold, uranium, barite, lithium and tantalum. Principal Consultant with Met-Chem Consultants.

 

Chad Czerny

Extractive metallurgist with over 20 years technical and management experience in metallurgical testwork and process development programmes for a diverse range of metals. Specific experience in nickel, cobalt, copper, gold, vanadium, zirconium, niobium and rare earths. Chad has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Melbourne.

 

Fernando Hernandez Polanco

Pyrometallurgist with 28 years operational and research experience in ferronickel smelting, nickel pig iron and ore calcining. Extensive smelting experience gained from Cerro Matoso and in the Philippines working on nickel laterites. Has post graduate qualifications from the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris.