Richard Hay

Richard Hay is a highly experienced mining executive with close to 30 years of experience in gold.

He joined Gascoyne Resources in January 2019 in a newly created role as executive general manager, before becoming chief executive in April 2019 and managing director in October 2020. Prior to that, Mr Hay spent 7 years as general manager of Evolution Mining, and 13 years with Barrick Gold (then Plutonic Resources) where he was geological superintendent at the Darlot gold mine and played an integral role in delineating a resource in excess of 2 million ounces at the Centenary discovery which extended the mine life by more than 10 years. He was also general manager of Yilgarn Shared Services and led the integration and operation of a suite of 8 functional areas supporting Barrick’s Plutonic, Darlot, Lawlers and Granny Smith mines from a centralised Perth base. Mr Hay was involved with several ore purchase agreements reached with third parties to treat ore at Barrick processing facilities.

Mr Hay holds a Master of Science (Geology) from Otago University, New Zealand.