CHRISTOPHER BATTYE
Executive Chairman - BLegS
Chris provided the impetus in founding Commissioners Gold Limited (formerly Nerriga Mining Group Pty Ltd) in 2005 as a New South Wales focused minerals exploration company, and identified the Company’s key project acquisitions with the assistance of Geos Mining. His interest was sparked by a paternal predecessor who became a Gold Commissioner in the Lachlan Fold Belt in the 1850’s.
Before admission as a solicitor in 1984 Chris had careers in media and mining, being a machine sapphire miner on the Anakie Field, Queensland. Since admission Chris has worked for a major CBD law firm, as well as regionally in Bathurst and Ballina. In the late eighties he purchased one of Sydney’s oldest practices, transforming it into a low cost high volume retail conveyancing business with five outlets, a model he has repeated at Chatswood (The Conveyancing Shop).
Chris has represented mining companies and has coordinated a dolomite feasibility study for a Queensland miner.
ALAN SHEPHERD
Non Executive Director
Alan is the Company’s ‘man on the ground’ on this capital raising. Alan has had a lifetime’s practical industry experience having commenced his mining career at the age of seventeen with his father Kevin Shepherd, a contract mining operator. Alan soon became indispensable on project startups, being involved over the years with numerous companies on their plant and allied equipment requirements for gold and mineral, sand and aggregate and other extractive production plants along the eastern seaboard. Alan will be ‘on the ground’ with Geos Mining on the ‘Black Bullock’ drill program.
WESLEY MARTIN HARDER
Non Executive Director – BSc. Dip SIA. MAus IMM
Wes Harder is a former gold analyst with Jackson Ltd Stockbrokers and has also worked as a gold, mining and resource Analyst with stockbrokers Ord Minnett and Frank Renouf. He has also worked as a field exploration geologist for some 15 years in Australia and its near neighbours including Sumatra, Irian Jaya in Indonesia, New Britain and mainland Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Fiji.
In Australia he has worked in New South Wales, Queensland, the Northern Territory and Tasmania. He has worked in tropical and temperate (both wet and dry) climates, searching for a range of mineral commodities including gold, copper, uranium and coal for major companies such as Placer Prospecting, Newmont Mining Inc., and Pancontinental Mining Limited. He was a founding Director and CEO of Zinico Resources NL and its successors for a period of seven years and has conducted his own consultancy firm for many years.
KEITH TAYLOR
Company Secretary - MCom, MBA, CPA, FCIS, F Fin
Keith is an experienced company secretary having previously served two ASX listed company Boards, and a number of private companies. He has a strong knowledge of resource company financial requirements and management.
Keith also does consulting work for Novus Capital Limited, a licensed dealer in securities. His previous positions have included work at the Australian Securities Commission and eight years with an Australian Merchant Bank, providing advice on mergers and acquisitions, tax effective funding and corporate restructuring.
SUE BORDER
Project Manager - BSc (Hons), Gr Dip, FAIG, FAusIMM, MMICA
Sue Border is a geologist with over 30 years experience in the minerals industry. Sue specialises in project management and reserve estimation. Her broad experience includes periods as a mine geologist, consultant, academic, and exploration manager before founding Geos Mining.
Specifically, as exploration manager, Sue discovered and developed Staurolite Ridge, a large garnet deposit which has been mined.
Sue has built up an exploration portfolio for a $15 million public float on a very limited budget and successfully negotiated joint ventures.
Together with her husband Geoff she has built Geos Mining into a team of 20 varied professionals consulting in a wide range of minerals and coal related fields. Sue has experience in a wide variety of industrial minerals and metals and has carried out research in geostatistics and mine quality control. She is a fellow of AusIMM (Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy) and AIG (Australian Institute of Geoscientists), and a member of MICA (Mineral Industry Consultants Association).
