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COMINGS AND GOINGS

Sharon Warburton company undertakes a search                           Liangfu Lyu has been an-           of chief executive. Cataford,
                            for a permanent replacement.                   nounced as the replacement     who joined the company as vice
                                                                       director for the outgoing New      president, engineering in 2014,
                                    Former Echo Resources              Apex Asia representative Zhao-     assumes responsibilities from
                                        Ltd chief executive Simon      hui Wu at Queensland copper        Michael O’Keeffe, who retains
                                    Coxhell has been appointed a       miner CuDeco Ltd.                  his executive chairman role.
                                    director of Blaze International
                                    Ltd. Coxhell will focus on pro-    George Karageorge, found-          David Riekie has joined Ze-
                                    gressing exploration at the com-         ing geologist for Pilbara         nith Energy Ltd as a non-
                                    pany’s Kirkalocka and Leonora      Minerals Ltd, has been appoint-    executive director. Riekie, who
                                    gold projects.                     ed president of TSX-listed Blue-   also sits on the board of Paladin
                                                                       Bird Battery Minerals Inc.         Energy Ltd, is the principal of
Sharon Warburton has been           Tino Kapfumo will start as                                            DNR Consulting which provides
     appointed an adjunct pro-           Anson Resources Ltd’s new     Centrex Metals has ap-             corporate advisory services in
fessor at Curtin University.        company secretary and finance           pointed Simon Slesare-        the resources and energy sec-
A non-executive director at         manager from May 6 following       wich as its new chief execu-       tors.
Fortescue Metals Group Ltd          the departure of Kim Hogg.         tive, replacing Ben Hammond.
and Gold Road Resources Ltd,        Non-executive director Michael     Slesarewich was most recently      Resource Capital Funds has
Warburton will be part of the       van Uffelen has assumed An-        managing director of Metallica          nominated Peter Nichol-
university’s Faculty of Business    son’s interim company secre-       Minerals Ltd and was also a        son and Chris Corbett to join
and Law and offer advice on         tary duties, having previously     director of the Queensland Re-     the board of MZI Resources
business and industry trends.       filled the role until December     sources Council.                   Ltd following the resignations
                                    2017.                                                                 of independent non-executive
Egan Street Resources Ltd                                                                    Ben Hammond  directors Rod Baxter and Ma-
     chief financial officer Bren-  Following an extensive global                                         ree Amason. RCF has a 60%
don Morton has assumed the              search for a new chief exec-   Anthony Harris has replaced        shareholding of MZI. Ronnie
company secretary responsibili-     utive, Danakali Ltd has turned to       Shelley Peters as company     Beevor is also set to join the
ties from Simon Robertson.          chief commercial officer Niels     secretary for Zeus Resources       company as its new non-exec-
                                    Wage to fill the role. Wage,       Ltd.                               utive chairman.
Angela Pankhurst has re-            who joined the potash-focused
     joined PanTerra Gold Ltd as    company in June last year, pre-    Exploration geologist Brad-        Craig Riley has been pro-
company secretary. She was          viously held a number of senior         ley Drabsch has been ap-           moted to managing director
previously the company’s chief      management roles at BHP Ltd,       pointed an executive director of   of Rimfire Pacific Mining Ltd,
financial officer and finance di-   including vice-president potash    Austrian-focused High Grade        having only been appointed
rector and has also served as       and vice-president freight.        Metals Ltd. Drabsch was most       chief executive of the gold ex-
a non-executive director on two                                        recently managing director         plorer in February. Riley fills the
separate occasions.                 Simon Hay will join Galaxy         of Trek Metals Ltd and was a       board position recently vacated
                                         Resources Ltd as chief ex-    founding director of Centrepeak    by John Kaminsky, who has
Panoramic Resources Ltd             ecutive from July 1. Hay, who      Resources Group which was in-      stepped down after more than
     has appointed former Me-       will be based in Perth, is cur-    volved in Capricorn Metals Ltd’s   15 years as a driving force be-
dusa Mining Ltd managing            rently head of resource devel-     acquisition of the Karlawinda      hind many of Rimfire’s achieve-
director Boyd Timler its new        opment at Iluka Resources Ltd.     gold project from Independ-        ments, including the Sorpresa
chief operating officer. Timler,    Current chief executive and        ence Group NL. Meanwhile,          discovery in 2010.
who has consulted to the nickel     managing director Anthony Tse      High Grade chairman Anthony
miner since late last year, was     will transition to an executive    Hall will continue in an execu-    Russell Clark has resigned
also chief operating officer at     role focused on corporate de-      tive role focused on broader            as chief executive of Kas-
Beadell Resources and held a        velopment and marketing.           corporate strategy and global      bah Resources Ltd. Clark’s
number of senior operational                                           financial markets stakeholder      replacement is Evan Spencer
management positions at Bar-        David Southam has stepped          engagement.                        who was the company’s chief
rick Gold Corp between 2005              down as a non-executive di-                                      operating officer.
and 2013.                           rector of Kidman Resources Ltd     Champion Iron Ltd has el-
                                    due to increasing commitments           evated chief operating of-                            Russell Clark
Stefan Murphy has resigned          with his new role as managing      ficer David Cataford to the role
     as managing director of        director of Mincor Resources
Great Boulder Resources Ltd to      Ltd.
take up the role of chief execu-
tive of Nathan River Resources,     Richard Valenta has resigned
a subsidiary of Britmar which            from the board of AuStar
intends to restart the Roper Bar    Gold Ltd to pursue other in-
iron ore mine in the Northern       terests, with Philip Amery an-
Territory. Greg Hall has been       nounced as his replacement.
appointed Great Boulder’s in-       Amery is an experienced capi-
terim chief executive while the     tal markets advisor and private
                                    banker who is currently chair-
                                    man of Metgasco Ltd.

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