Hammer Metals appoints ex Rio Engineer to board

Perth based Hammer Metals have appointed ex Rio Tinto Senior Mining Engineer Simon Bodensteiner to their board to replace outgoing director Patrick Corr.

Mr Bodensteiner is currently the Chief Mining engineer for Hammer Metals’ major shareholder Deutsche Rohstoff AG.

Deutsche Rohstoff AG is a German based diversified miner and explorer listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange.

The company has many and varied mining assets around the world including a tungsten-molybdenum mine located in Queensland, exploration projects in the Ore Mountains of Saxony, Germany which include tin deposits Gottesberg & Geyer and the Storkwitz Rare Earth deposit. 

Deutsche Rohstoff AG also operates a zinc and lead exploration Joint Venture with Glencore Xstrata in Canada. 

Mr Bodensteiner is also a former consultant to the well regarded Boston Consulting Group and he was the Production Engineer for Rio Tinto’s Argyle underground operations in WA in 2011.