Keep up with the latest executive movements across the mining sector, featuring Chalice Mining, Red 5, Galan Lithium and more.
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Chalice Mining has made a series of changes to its executive leadership team, including long-serving chief financial officer (CFO) Richard Hacker moving into the newly-created role of general manager (GM) – strategy and commercial.
This will see Hacker lead strategic partnership opportunities for the Julimar nickel-copper-platinum group elements (PGEs) project in WA.
Chris MacKinnon, who has been Chalice’s business development and legal manager since 2020, will take over from Hacker as Chalice CFO.
“As Chalice continues to grow and develop as an organisation, we are pleased to announce this important strengthening of our executive leadership team,” Chalice managing director and chief executive officer Alex Dorsch said.
“Richard has played an instrumental role in the company’s success since its foundation, and I am looking forward to deploying his strong commercial and corporate skills in the newly-created position of GM – strategy and commercial.”
Dorsch said MacKinnon has been an “excellent recent addition” to Chalice and is ideally qualified to succeed Hacker as CFO.
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Red 5 has announced that Kevin Dundo has stepped down as chair of the company after 13 years of service.
This will see Andrea Sutton, who has been a non-executive director of the company since 2020, become interim chair as a board succession process takes place.
“Kevin has provided strong leadership over a significant period, including what has been a time of great change and achievement for Red 5 since the acquisition of the Darlot and King of the Hills assets in 2017,” Sutton said.
“This allowed the company to successfully pivot from being a Philippines gold miner to being a wholly west Australian-focused gold producer with ownership of significant gold assets in Australia and a strong growth platform for the future in the Leonora region.
“We are looking forward to updating the market in due course on our board succession process, which is designed to ensure that Red 5 has the appropriate blend of skills and experience to oversee this next chapter.”
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Galan Lithium has appointed lithium brine expert Juan Carlos Barrera as a consultant and advisor to its board.
During his 28 years at Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), Barrera spent the last 12 years as lithium and potassium senior operations vice-president, where he was responsible for exploration, mining, production and expansions.
As part of this, Barrera was instrumental in the building of over 27 square kilometres of solar evaporations ponds.
“People with Juan Carlos’s experience, particularly in the South American lithium industry, are not easy to source,” Galan managing director JP Vargas de la Vega said.
“The fact that he has joined the Galan team and agreed to consult to the board and management is a further testament to the high calibre of our projects and the quality of work we have achieved to date.
“His expertise will greatly assist us at this critical time in the development and future operational aspects of the HMW (Hombre Muerto West) project, especially with the planned mineral reserve/resource estimate and the DFS (definitive feasibility study) slated for completion in the coming weeks.”
Galan’s flagship assets include two lithium brine projects, HMW and Candelas, located in Argentina.
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Jeffrey Innes has resigned as a non-executive director of Austral Resources.
It comes after Innes was recently appointed as chair of Ok Tedi, one of the largest mines in Papua New Guinea.
During his time at Austral, Innes played a key role in elevating Austral from its initial ASX-listing in 2021 to current steady state production.
Austral said Innes had moved on “due to his recent chair appointment and the increasing demands of his other roles”.
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