Sydney, Australia - October 9, 2013, Sydney, Australia - Metminco, an exploration company, announced the appointment of Roger Higgins and Stephen Tainton to the board of the company.
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Mr. Higgins' career has spanned 41 years, which included various hydrology related positions early in his career in Papua New Guinea (Commonwealth Department and Bougainville Copper), and 4-years at the University of New South Wales where he completed a PhD in water resource economics.
He subsequently spent 26-years with BHP as Manager Planning and Development with BHP Copper, General Mine Manager Escondida, Managing Director Ok Tedi, Vice President Project Development Chile and Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Australia responsible for the Olympic Dam and Cannington mines.
Thereafter Mr. Higgins spent 5-years with Teck Resources Limited as Senior Vice President - Copper, where he was responsible for Teck's copper business unit and its related operations in Canada, Chile and Peru.
Mr. Higgins holds a BE from the University of Queensland, a MSc from the University of Aberdeen, a PhD from the University of New South Wales and attended the Stanford Executive Program.
Mr. Tainton will head up the Company's Business Development and Exploration units. He holds a BSc Honours (Geology) from the University of Natal in South Africa, and has spent most of his working career in South Africa, having started as a Research Geologist in 1980 with Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Limited (JCI).
Mr. Tainton has served on the Boards of several JSE listed and unlisted companies whilst with JCI, the most recent of which was Executive Director of Western Areas Limited. In 2007 he joined Gold Fields Limited as Senior Advisor - Strategy, followed by a brief period with Partners In Performance involved with business process re-engineering.
The company also announced that William Etheridge has elected to retire from the Board.
Mr. Etheridge has more than 35 years of experience in the mining and mining finance industry, based mainly in Sydney and London. He worked as a mining engineer with Hamersley Iron, and as an economist and business development executive for mining companies in London (Consolidated Gold Fields) and Sydney (Renison Goldfields Consolidated).
Mr. Etheridge has since worked within mining companies (including Hargraves Resources, Selwyn Mines Limited and Metminco Limited) focusing on mining project scoping, analysis and appraisal, mine planning, valuation of internal and external opportunities, and investor relations. ■