• Board of Directors

Mr. Cobus van Wyk

(President)

Mr. Cobus van Wyk is an extensively experienced Exploration and Mining Entrepreneur active in Mozambique since 2004. He directly contributed to securing the current project’s concessions via extensive networks in the Mozambique government and business community.

Mr. van Wyk has personally discovered prospective areas and done due diligence on 1,800 concessions and has developed and sold numerous projects including a tantalite project to Afrique, a Coal project to AfriMinerals, a diamond project to Mustang, Graphite projects sold to Balama and Ovanha and he also developed and mined rubies which he then sold to Gemrock and Fura. Mr. van Wyk completed his MBA from the University Of Wales. He has over 20 years of experience in the financial markets and corporate finance and 20 years of experience as a director of listed and unlisted companies.

Mr. Franco Jordaan

(Chief Executive Officer)

Mr. Franco Jordaan is an expert in all aspects of financial accounting, management reporting, systems, corporate governance, treasury, marketing and projects. He has worked for major players including Impala Platinum, Eastplats, Trafigura and Vedanta, and has experience with multiple commodities (Platinum group metals, Iron ore, Chrome, Copper Zinc, Lead, Silver).

He has been involved in mining, exploration processing and refining since 2001, and has first-hand experience of doing business in Mozambique, Angola, DRC, Namibia and South Africa. Mr. Jordaan completed his BCom hons. degree, CIMA advanced diploma, PMP and CCP.

Mr. Dirk Muntingh

(Technical Director)

Mr. Dirk Muntingh holds a Master’s degree in the field of geology which he obtained from the University of Johannesburg. He previously worked at the Council for Geosciences, before joining Anglo American Corporation’s gold division in 1987 and progressed to Country Manager for Ghana in 1997 before transferring to AngloGold in 1999 as the Country Manager for Australia.

From 2006 he managed the exploration program of Witwatersrand Gold Resources until its takeover by Sibanye Gold in 2014. He has since then practised as an independent consulting geologist. He operates internationally and specialises in geological aspects of gold mining, exploration and project feasibility over the full range of deposit types.

Mr. Philip Richards

(Director)

Mr. Philip Richards is Founder and President of RAB Capital which he jointly founded in 1999. He was Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer until 2008.

As manager of the RAB Special Situations Fund he ran around $2bn in the mining and energy sector. Previous to founding RAB Capital he was a Managing Director in equity research and then investment banking at Merrill Lynch. He is a graduate of Oxford University.

Mr. Andrew Knatchbull

(Chief Financial Officer)

Mr. Andrew Knatchbull is the long-standing Finance Director of the investment company RAB Capital Limited, and a qualified Chartered Accountant. He joined RAB in 2007.

RAB Capital is a private company that invests in a wide range of assets with a primary focus on renewables, life science, natural resources, early-stage technologies and real estate developments. RAB Capital currently targets investments in small companies, both listed and private, and real estate development opportunities.

Previously, Andrew was Head of Management Information (MI) at asset management firm, Henderson Global Investments (now Janus Henderson Investors). He was appointed to this post after two years in Group MI at Lloyds Banking Group. Prior to Lloyds Andrew worked as an Account Executive at the NASDAQ listed insurance company Mutual Risk Management.

Andrew graduated from the University of Birmingham with a Bachelor of Commerce and began his working career at Deloitte, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant, in London and Bermuda. Andrew is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Mr. Robert Schafer

(Non-Executive Director)

Mr. Robert Schafer (Bob) is a Registered Professional Geologist with +30 years international experience. Bob is an active member of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME), its President 2020-2021, and served on the Board for more than a decade. He is also Past-President of the PDAC (2015-16), the CIM (2013-14) and the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America (2005-6). Bob was a member of the Board of Governors for the US National Mining Hall of Fame and the Board of Directors of the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame.

He is the first person to hold such leadership roles in both the USA and Canada. Bob is the recipient of the William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal from AIME, as well as the prestigious Daniel C. Jackling Award and Robert A. Dreyer Award from SME for technical achievements and leadership in the mining industry during his career. He is founder and CEO of Eagle Mines Management and is a member of the Board of Directors of select mining companies.

Mr. Gerhard van Wyk

(Legal & Logistics and Procurement Manager)

Mr. van Wyk has 11 years’ experience in the mining industry and has been the Logistics and Procurement Manager for Regius Resources since 2014, and the Legal Manager since 2019. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Financial Management which he obtained from the University of Pretoria.

Additionally, he also completed his Registered Person’s examinations through the South African Institute of Financial Markets (SAIFM): Equity markets and Bond markets. Mr. van Wyk is aspiring to obtain his CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) Charter and has, to date, passed the CFA Level 1 and Level 2 Examinations.

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