Company Overview

Advancing the commercialisation of its proprietary solvent extraction and refining technology to produce a range of high purity aluminium products for sale into the lithium-ion battery and LED battery markets.

Directors and Management

Mr Peter James Nightingale

Chief Financial Officer,Executive Director 30/11/2009

Mr Nightingale has more than 30 years experience and was responsible for the financial control, administration, secretarial and in-house legal functions of a number of private and public listed companies in Australia, the USA and Europe including Pangea Resources Limited, Timberline Minerals Inc., Perseverance Corporation Limited, Valdora Minerals N.L., Mogul Mining N.L., Bolnisi Gold N.L. and Planet Gas Limited (now Sky Metals Limited). Mr Nightingale is currently a director of unlisted public company Prospech Limited.

BEco, CA, MCA(ANZ) Chartered Accountant Male

Mr Norman Alfred Seckold

Non-Executive Chairman,Non-Executive Director 30/11/2009

Mr Seckold has spent more than 30 years in the full time management of natural resource companies, both in Australia and overseas. Mr Seckold has been the Chairman of a number of publicly listed companies including Moruya Gold Mines (1983) N.L., which acquired the Golden Reward heap leach gold deposit in South Dakota, USA, Pangea Resources Limited, which acquired and developed the Pauper's Dream gold mine in Montana, USA, Timberline Minerals, Inc. which acquired and completed a feasibility study for the development of the MacArthur copper deposit in Nevada, USA, Perseverance Corporation Limited, which discovered and developed the Nagambie gold mine in Victoria, Valdora Minerals N.L., which developed the Rustler's Roost gold mine in the Northern Territory and the Ballarat East Gold Mine in Victoria, Viking Gold Corporation, which discovered a high grade gold deposit in northern Sweden, Mogul Mining N.L., which drilled out the Magistral and Ocampo gold deposits in Mexico and Bolnisi Gold N.L, which discovered and developed the Palmarejo and Guadalupe gold and silver mines in Mexico, and Equus Mining Limited, a mineral and development company operating in Chile. He is also a director of the unlisted public company Mekong Minerals Ltd.

B Econ Male

Mr Anthony Sgro

Non-Executive Director 01/11/2017

Mr Sgro spent with an international engineering group, including an extended period managing operations in Indonesia. In 1979, with two partners, Mr Sgro started Kelair Pumps which grew to be the largest privately owned pumping equipment supply company in Australia. The company was sold to an international group in 2004 but Mr Sgro remained with the company as General Manager until his retirement in 2015. In a career spanning 45 years, Mr Sgro was deeply involved in the technical and commercial aspects of supply of specialised equipment to the major process industries including oil and gas, petrochemical, chemical and mining industries, including equipment specification, material selection, commercial and technical aspects of large tenders, contract negotiation and contract management.

GDip(Mktng) Chemical Engineer Male

Mr Rimas Kairaitis

Managing Director 01/11/2017

Mr Kairaitis have more than 24 years experience in minerals exploration and resource development in gold, base metals and industrial minerals. Mr Kairaitis led the geological field teams to the discovery of the Tomingley and McPhillamy's gold deposits in NSW and steered the Hera gold-lead-zinc Project from discovery through to commissioning and commercial production. He is director of Sky Metals Limited and previously director of Great Western Exploration Ltd.

B.Sc (Geo), MAusIMM Geologist Male

Mr Justin Charles Werner

Non-Executive Director 08/08/2014

Mr Werner has been involved in the mining industry for more than 10 years. He was a founding partner of PT Gemala Borneo Utama, a private Indonesian exploration and mining company, which developed a heap leach gold mine in West Kalimantan and discovered the prospective Romang Island in Indonesia which was acquired by Padiham resources from Robust Resources Limited in November 2014. Prior to focusing on developing projects in Indonesia, he worked as a consultant for specialist mining consultancies GPR Dehler, Jamieson Consulting and Partners in Performance, leading many turnaround projects for blue chip mining companies including Freeport McMoran (Grasberg deposit, Indonesia where he spent 2 years), Lihir Gold (Lihir mine, Papua New Guinea), Placer Dome (Nevada, USA), BHP Billiton (Ingwe Coal, South Africa), Rio Tinto (West Angeles Iron Ore, Australia), Nickel West (Western Australia) and QNI Yabulu refinery (Queensland, Australia).

BMgnt Male

Mr Cameron Simon Peacock

Non-Executive Director 03/02/2021

Mr Peacock has worked over the last 20+ years in numerous finance-focused roles across banking, private equity and equity capital markets. In his recent roles as an Investor Relations and Business Development executive across several resource companies. He has been involved in the preparation and execution of numerous large-scale primary and secondary capital market transactions. He has established a network across the global resources and generalist investment funds and involved in assisting companies to build and manage their institutional and retail investor bases.

BCom,GradDipAppFin&Inv,MAppFin, Male

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