Board of Directors

Charles Hethey is a securities lawyer in British Columbia and New York with over 10 years’ experience. Mr. Hethey represents a number of U.S. and Canadian listed entities on the TSX Venture Exchange, Canadian Securities Exchange and U.S. OTC markets. In particular, Mr. Hethey’s clients are active in a broad range of industries including mineral resources, oil and gas, industrial, green energy and technology.

Mr. Hethey has significant experience in U.S. and Canadian corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and securities compliance matters. Mr. Hethey was a director of New Energy Metals Corp. (TSXV: ENRG), a mineral exploration company with exploration projects in Quebec and Chile, and a director of Skyledger Tech Corp. (CSE: SKYL), a Bitcoin miner.

Mr. McCunn, a Professional Engineer, has more than 30 years of experience in the international mining sector and an established track record operationally. Mr. McCunn has worked within large mining organizations such as Placer Dome and Teck but has also led multiple junior mining companies from exploration success through the transition to project development, permitting, financing, construction and operations. As an executive, he has had a leadership role putting mines into production on three different continents.

In addition to Mr. McCunn’s strong operational and technical focus, his financial acumen and capital markets ability is proven, and as an executive he has raised over $600 million in equity and debt financing from US and Canadian capital markets. He has also completed over $ 1 billion in merger and acquisitions transactions and has been the Chief Executive Officer of several NYSE and TSX listed companies, including Alio Gold and Galiano Gold. Mr. McCunn holds a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) and has had more than a decade of experience in the mining sector as a Chief Financial Officer.

With more than 25 years of global mining and exploration experience across underground, open pit, and surface operations, Dr. Muller brings a proven track record in mine restarts, resource development, and world-class discoveries.  His career spans early roles with Ivanhoe Mines in Indonesian Borneo and Mongolia, and Glencar Mining in Ghana, through to senior and executive positions in Papua New Guinea. Notably, he has played a pivotal role in key mine restarts in PNG, including the Simberi Gold Mine and Kainantu GoldCopper Mine. For the past two decades, Dr Muller has been deeply committed to Papua New Guinea’s mining sector, where he has helped shape several landmark projects. As part of the Morobe Mining Joint Venture (a partnership between Newmont and Harmony Gold), he was instrumental in discoveries that established the Wafi/Golpu deposit as a world-class Au-Cu-Mo asset (ca. 70Moz Au Eq.).

With K92 Mining, he was co-recipient of the prestigious Thayer Lindsley Award for the discovery of Kora North and contributed to the definition of multiple major resources (totalling ca. 22Moz Au Eq.).

Dr Muller holds a first-class honours degree in economic geology from the University of Tasmania and a PhD from Macquarie University.

Robert McMorran obtained his Chartered Accountant designation in 1981 and has over 35 years of experience working in the mining industry. He founded Malaspina Consultants Inc. in July 1997, a private company providing accounting and administrative services to junior public companies.

He has held numerous board and senior management positions with a number of public companies since 1991 including Santacruz Silver Mining Ltd, Terra Ventures Inc, Roxgold Gold Inc, and the Canada Dominion Resources Group.