Thomas Duckworth

Recent roles of Mr Duckworth have been as a metallurgical consultant for iron, gold and base metal projects in Australia and Europe with previous major roles in the metallurgical development of a number of base metal projects including Hellyer, Cannington, Rapu Rapu and Tritton. He was a non-executive director of Lachlan Star Ltd and retired from the board in 2010. Mr Duckworth has been an independent consultant for 18 years, prior to which he was employed by ELB/ Nedpac and was a founding director of Signet Engineering, and previous to that he held positions as Chief Metallurgist for BP/Seltrust in Australia and Group Metallurgist for Selection Trust in London and was heavily involved in the development of Leinster Nickel Mine and Teutonic Bore in Western Australia as well as grass route developments and bringing into operation base metal mines in Canada and gold operations in Australia, Nevada USA and Kazakhstan.