Directors

Mr Forrester is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.  He has been involved in the exploration and mining industry over the past forty years. Mr Forrester is one of the original shareholders of the Company which he floated in 1985.

Ms Clark was appointed to the Board on 25 August 2015. 

Following employment with the British Institute of Management, Ms Clark joined Gresham House plc in 1974. Gresham House was involved in asset management and investment trusts. Ms Clark was Company Secretary to fifty companies as well as Director of some forty companies, alongside previous Director of Mount Burgess Mining Mr Stirling until 2008. Since 2008, Ms Clark has been Company Secretary of six Companies and a Director of a number of companies.  

Mr Harry Warries, a mining engineer was appointed to the Board on 1 August 2016.  Mr Warries is a Fellow of the AusIMM and prior to setting up his own mining consultancy business he worked on a wide range of projects, both in Australia and overseas, including a number of major feasibility studies. He has provided mining engineering services relative to copper, nickel, cobalt, gold, lead, zinc and graphite projects, as well as conducting numerous due diligence studies and technical audits.

Mr Robert Brougham, a metallurgist was appointed to the Board on 7 July 2021. Mr Brougham is a Fellow of the AusIMM and has vast experience in commissioning, plant operations and maintenance of many base metal projects in Australia, Zambia, Eritrea and Indonesia. He has in-depth knowledge of the Company project in Kihabe-Nxuu, having been the principal metallurgist involved in all the metallurgical test work conducted on the project by ProMet Engineering. This confirmed the recoverability of Zinc metal on site from the Zinc oxide minerals Baileychlore (Kihabe Deposit) and Smithsonite (Nxuu Deposit).

Mr Thamage was appointed to the Board on 1 February 2023.

Mr Thamage, a Mostwana National, is a Mining Engineer and was reappointed as CEO of Botswana’s Diamond Hub in July 2021 and appointed as the International Chairman of the Kimberley Process in 2022.

Mr Thamage was previously engaged as the Deputy Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources in May 2010. He was appointed Coordinator of Botswana’s Diamond Hub to coordinate the relocation of DeBeers diamond sales functions from London to Gaborone, Botswana. This involved:

• Establishing the Okavango Diamond Company and as founding Chairman, recruiting the Executive Team.
• Overseeing Botswana’s delegation in the Kimberley Process certification scheme from 2003 to 2016.
• Leading the first Kimberley Process review commission to Israel in 2004, which set the standards for future Kimberley Process review missions.

From June 2016 to December 2017, Mr Thamage held the position of Chief Mining Officer for the African Development Bank in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.

Mr McGeorge was appointed to the Board on 1 February 2023.

Mr McGeorge, a Britist national resident in Botswana, is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London and a chartered geologist.  He is Principal Consultant and co-owner of iQuest Geology, a geological consultancy based in Gaborone, Botswana.

Mr McGeorge has many years of experience of prospecting in Botswana, having been involved in exploration for diamonds, gold, copper, nickel, iron ore, lithium, and industrial minerals, as well as supervising exploration and resource development on the Company’s Kihabe-Nxuu project.  Mr McGeorge has also held senior positions in Government funded groundwater and mapping contracts.

In addition to Botswana, Mr McGeorge has significant experience of exploring for copper in Zambia and the DRC, gold in Zimbabwe and diamonds in West Africa.