Steven Elliott is a qualified geologist with over 30 years of experience in mineral exploration. He has broad experience as a consultant to the industry as well as directorships of public listed ASX companies with various commodities. Mr Elliott has experience within Australia, Asia and North America and has been accredited and been involved in many exploration discoveries. He has broad experience in conceptual geology, project generation and exploration for a variety of commodities in a broad spectrum of geological terranes. Mr Elliott commenced his career with Swan Resources, exploring for diamonds and subsequently platinum throughout Australia. He was a consultant and contract geologist to various mineral explorers. He founded Helix Resources NL in 1985 and was its director of exploration for 12 years. He established Talisman Mining in 1997 and was instrumental in the discovery of a new type of platinum mineralization at Fifield in New South Wales and the discovery of gold mineralization at Glenburgh in the Gascoyne region in a geological environment considered to be largely unprospective. Mr Elliott is a Member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He graduated from the West Australian Institute of Technology (Curtin University) with a BSc in Geology.