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Follow the Leaders: This week’s executive appointments

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Keep up with the latest executive movements across the mining sector, including Astron Corporation, Ardiden Resources, Fin Resources and more.

Astron Corporation has welcomed Sean Chelius as project director who will oversee the company’s prospective Donald mineral sands and rare earth project in western Victoria.

Chelius will be tasked with leading the development of the feasibility study and guiding the project through its engineering and construction phases, with the end goal of commercial production.

He has more than 30 years’ experience in project management and engineering roles in Australia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea and beyond, with the likes of BHP, Anglo American and Newcrest his previous employers.

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Ardiden Resources has appointed Bruce McFadzean as independent non-executive chair, bringing with him more than 40 years’ experience in leadership, corporate transformation and project construction.

McFadzean led Catalpa Resources into its merger with Conquest Mining, creating Evolution Mining as a result and growing the company’s market capitalisation from $10 million to $1.2 billion.

The appointment comes as Ardiden enters a critical stage of exploration drilling at its Pickle Lake gold project located east of Evolution’s Red Lake gold operations in Ontario, Canada.

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Fin Resources has appointed Brian Talbot as a technical director, who previously served as Galaxy Resources’ head of Australian operations.

Talbot has over 25 years’ experience in mining and chemical processing sectors and arrives at a time when Fin looks to develop a team to progress key planning, permitting and study activities of its Sol Mar project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Sol Mar aims to discover a sustainable, natural process to produce salt via evaporation of seawater using solar and wind energy.

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Alice Queen has welcomed Nicholas Mather as strategic advisor, who the company believes has the expertise to add significant value to the company’s portfolio of exploration assets.

Mather is most recently known as a co-founder and chief executive officer of SolGold which is represented by its Cascabel copper-gold porphyry project in northern Ecuador.

Cascabel has a resource of nearly three billion tonnes of ore, containing 10 million tonnes of copper and 20 million tonnes of gold.

Alice Queen said Mather’s track record of transforming companies from small fry to big fish was an impressive attribute.

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Balkan Mining and Minerals has appointed Harry Spindler as chief financial officer, who initially joined the company in December 2020 as company secretary and was influential in implementing the Balkan’s ASX listing in July 2021.

Spindler is more than 20 years’ experience as a corporate professional with a broad range of finance, accounting, corporate governance and capital markets experience across various industries.

Balkan said Spindler would play an important role in the continued development of Balkan.

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