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COMINGS AND GOINGS

                     William Witham  Burke has replaced Neville            on January 1. In the interim,     its Colulli potash project in
                                     Bassett as chairman of Mete-          Chris Hartley will act as an      Eritrea, as well as completing
William Witham has been              oric, while executive director        executive director and com-       a LSE listing. Head of market-
        appointed chief execu-       Graeme Clatworthy has tran-           pany secretary Paul Jurman        ing Danny Goeman has been
tive of the Australia-Africa         sitioned to a non-executive           as a non-executive director       promoted to the chief execu-
Minerals & Energy Group              board role.                           until Mosig’s replacement is      tive’s chair.
(AAMEG). Witham has held                                                   appointed.
senior executive roles across        Robert Gregory has re-                                                  Syrah Resources has ap-
both the Australian and Af-               placed David Fowler as           Clean TeQ Holdings Ltd                 pointed Simone Diem as
rican resources sector over          chief executive of Sumatra                  has appointed Stephen       general manager of market-
more than two decades and            Copper & Gold plc. Fowler             Grocott as chief technical de-    ing. Diem was recently the
has worked directly in Namib-        will act as the company’s             velopment officer to support      lead buyer for RHI Magnesita
ia, Botswana, Cameroon, Ga-          chief financial officer until a       the development of its Sun-       NV, the world’s largest buyer
bon, Egypt, Niger and Kenya.         new appointment is made. In           rise nickel-cobalt-scandium       of graphite for the refractory
                                     other management changes,             project. Current chief techni-    and industrial markets.
Peel Mining Ltd has an-              Joe Dymott has been ap-               cal officer and founding direc-
     nounced experienced ge-         pointed general manager, de-          tor Peter Voigt will refocus his  Greg Cochran has been
ologist and mining executive         velopment.                            attention on the commerciali-           appointed chief execu-
Ian Bamborough will head                                                   sation of new technologies in     tive of Reward Minerals Ltd.
up Saturn Metals Ltd, the up-        Consolidated Zinc Ltd has             Clean TeQ’s water treatment       Cochran was most recently
coming spin-out of its Apollo              appointed experienced           business.                         managing director of Deep
Hill gold project. DDH1 Drill-       mining engineer Eduardo                                                 Yellow Ltd for five years and
ing commercial manager An-           Valenzuela as its new techni-         Jeremy Gray and Richard           prior to that he oversaw the
drew Venn will also sit on the       cal director. Valenzuela has              Crew have joined Orinoco      Australian arm of TSX-listed
board of the new company             previously held senior roles          Gold Ltd as managing direc-       Uranium One Inc.
to be chaired initially by Peel      at Sundance Resources Ltd,            tor and chief operating officer
managing director Rob Ty-            Southern Hemisphere Mining            respectively. Gray replaces       Andrew Radonjic has suc-
son.                                 Ltd and Lithium Australia NL          outgoing director Jonathan              ceeded Hamish Halliday
                                     and is currently manager of           Challis on the company’s          as managing director of Ven-
Bernard Olivier has joined           mining and geology at Wood            board, while Brian Thomas         ture Minerals Ltd. Radonjic
     Mustang Resources Ltd           Group plc (formerly Amec              has also stepped down as          has been involved with Ven-
as the company’s new man-            Foster Wheeler).                      chairman. Joseph Pinto, Ori-      ture since its inception and
aging director, with chairman                                              noco’s second largest share-      held the role of technical di-
Ian Daymond reverting back           Justin Tremain has been               holder, has been appointed        rector for the past eight years.
to a non-executive role. In              appointed managing direc-         interim non-executive chair-      Halliday will remain with the
other board and management           tor of Novo Litio Ltd follow-         man.                              company as a non-executive
changes, Cobus van Wyk has           ing the resignation of David                                            director and corporate con-
been elevated to chief operat-       Frances. Tremain founded              Rod Lovelady has joined           sultant.
ing officer/executive director       Renaissance Minerals in                    Red River Resources Ltd
and Peter Spiers has stepped         2010 and served as the com-           as chief financial officer, re-                       Ted van Heemst
down to pursue other busi-           pany’s managing director              placing Cameron Bodley who
ness interests.                      until its takeover by Emerald         will remain company sec-          NTM Gold Ltd appointed
                                     Resources NL in late 2016.            retary. Meanwhile, director            Andrew Muir as manag-
Andrew Tunks has re-                 Frances will continue to work         Paul Hart has resigned due        ing director. Muir is an expe-
      signed as chief executive      closely with the Novo Litio           to increased commitments in       rienced gold geologist who
of Auroch Minerals Ltd to take       board as an advisor to the            his executive role at Canary      has spent the past 12 years
over as managing director            company.                              Capital.                          in corporate finance. Sub-
of Meteoric Resources NL.                                                                                    stantial shareholder Ted van
Executive chairman Glenn                                    David Frances  John Parker has retired as        Heemst has agreed to join
Whiddon is now responsible                                                     managing director of Lin-     the board as a non-executive
for the day-to-day running of        Platina Resources Ltd is              coln Minerals Ltd after more      director, while current chief
Auroch, with chief geologist              on the lookout for a new         than a decade in the role.        executive Rodney Foster will
Peter Sheehan managing               chief executive after long-           Parker joined the company         transition to the role of non-
the company’s exploration            serving managing director             at a time when it had no re-      executive (technical) director.
activities. Meanwhile, Patrick       Robert Mosig elected to retire        source to now on the verge
                                                                           of becoming a recognised
                                                                           graphite producer. Lincoln is
                                                                           yet to announce his replace-
                                                                           ment.

                                                                           Danakali Ltd managing di-
                                                                                rector Paul Donaldson is
                                                                           transitioning to a non-exec-
                                                                           utive role as the company’s
                                                                           focus shifts to securing bind-
                                                                           ing off-take agreements for

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