Board and Management

Jonathan
Downes

Chairman

Jonathan has more than 25 years’ experience in the mining industry and has worked in various geological and corporate capacities. Jonathan has experience with nickel, gold and base metals and has also been involved with numerous private and public capital raisings. Jonathan was a founding director of Hibernia Gold (now Moly Mines Ltd) and Siberia Mining Corporation Ltd and is currently a non-executive Director of Corazon Mining Limited.

Josh
Puckridge

Managing Director

Mr. Puckridge is a corporate finance executive and experienced company director of ASX listed companies, including formerly serving as the CEO and Executive Director of Discovery Resources Limited, a Namibian REE exploration company. Mr. Puckridge previously worked for a global funds manager (Fleming Asset Management), managing in excess of $US1.4bn; and has recently been consulting in the Australian hydrogen sector where his roles have included negotiating future H2 offtake with large Japanese Trading Companies (JTCs) in coordination with multiple Australian port entities and biomass to H2 projects.

Elizabeth
Laursen

Non-Executive Director

Mrs. Laursen has over 20 years experience as a geologist and logistics manager. She has worked for several ASX listed and private exploration and development companies in the role of Chief Geologist. Laursen also has experience in gold, base, specialty metals and industrial commodities in Australia, Greenland and Canada. Additionally, she has significant experience in corporate, managerial and technical roles ranging from project acquisition and greenfields exploration through to Feasibility Level studies and commission of new mining operations.

Technical Consultants

Dr. Graeme
Beardsmore

Technical Consultant

Dr Graeme Beardsmore earned his PhD in Geophysics from Monash University in 1996 for a project investigating the temperature of deep sediments beneath the North West Shelf of Australia, and is today recognised as one of the country’s foremost authorities on geothermal energy. Dr Beardsmore was the founding President of the Australian Geothermal Association in 2016, and continues to serve as a Director of that organisation. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne; Secretary of the Asia Western Pacific Regional Branch of the International Geothermal Association; Australia’s industry representative on the steering committee of the International Partnership for Geothermal Technology; and co-author of the monograph ‘Geothermal Exploration’ published by the IGA Academy in 2016. Through Hot Dry Rocks PL, Dr Beardsmore and colleagues have provided geothermal energy exploration advice and services since 2006.

Dr. Florian
Forster

Technical Consultant

Dr Florian Forster recently migrated to Australia from Germany after earning a PhD in Geophysics at the University of Potsdam for a project developing advanced gravimetric monitoring techniques for geothermal reservoir management. Dr Florian’s geochemical and geophysical investigations of soils, rocks and geothermal prospects extends back to 2011 and include stints at a research company in Spain, the Andean Geothermal Center of Excellence in Chile, and the German Research Center for Geosciences in Potsdam.


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