Neil Warburton joined Australian Mines as a non-executive Director in April 2003.

 

Mr Warburton is a qualified mining engineer with extensive experience in mining operations within Australia spanning 25 years, including executive management positions within publicly listed companies.

 

Mr Warburton is currently General Manager of Western Australian Operations for mining contractor Barminco Ltd and a Director of the Mining Hall of Fame.

 

Mr Elias has over 24 years of extensive, international experience in all aspects of nickel resource development in both laterites and sulphides, from project generation and evaluation, exploration planning and management, development studies, open cut and underground mine geology, resource/reserve estimation, and resource economics.

 

Mr Elias previously held the positions of Chief Geologist – WA Nickel Operations and Chief Geologist – Nickel Resource Development at WMC Resources Ltd. Mr Elias holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Geology from the University of Melbourne.

 

Brett Young has more than 20 years commercial and financial experience in resource based companies.

 

Mr Young has held senior management positions with major resource companies including Commercial Manager for Pasminco Century Zinc in the start  up phase, KCGM,  Newcrest and WMC.

 

He is a Chartered Accountant with experience in commercial evaluation of projects, company secretarial, implementing corporate strategies and developing information systems.