OUR EXPERIENCED MINING TEAM
Frank Vanspeybroeck
Managing Director
Frank has been involved in the exploration and mining industry for over 30 years and has been active nationally and internationally in acquiring mineral properties, gold mining, commissioning, and operating gold processing plants in Australia and China; and copper in Zambia.
Frank founded Wedgetail Exploration NL (Millennium Minerals Ltd) in 1999, listed the Company on the Australian Stock Exchange, and served as its Managing Director till 31 January 2006. Frank founded and listed on AIM China Goldmines PLC (Consolidated General Minerals PLC) and served as its Managing Director from 2006 till 2010. Frank operated in Zambia as CEO and Managing Director of Zambezi Resources Limited (copper/gold) from 2011 to 2016.
Marinko Vidovich
Chief Financial Officer
Marinko is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years’ experience in developing resource companies. Mr Vidovich was involved in Tribune Resources (an ASX company) that entered into a JV to become one of Australia’s highest-grade gold mines and was the Finance Director of China Goldmines that successfully developed a number of gold mines in Hunan China enabling the Company to raise in excess of US$100M to proceed with development.
He most recently was the Finance Director of Zambezi Resources who managed a conversion of a multi-million debt to equity financing which enabled the Company to proceed with a successful Zinc Project in Gabon.
Mr Vidovich provides a valuable wealth of hands on mining and finance experience from a number of continents; Australasia, Africa and Europe and is committed towards the success of the project as well as specialist knowledge in the areas of corporate accounting, corporate governance and equity markets.
Evan Kirby
Processing Manager
Dr Kirby is a metallurgist with over 40 years’ experience in the mining sector. He spent 16 years working for South African companies, Impala Platinum, Rand Mines and Rustenburg Platinum Mines. During this time, he worked in operations management, process development, plant expansions and new projects. Then in Australia, over a period of ten years with Minproc Engineers and Bechtel Corporation, he had technical and management roles in numerous studies and projects. This work covered a wide variety of metals & minerals and included many world-leading developments. He has worked as a director of Mining companies listed on the ASX and AIM and is currently a director of Bezant Resources plc (AIM).
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Solid Experienced Team
Dennis Rose
Country Manager
Mr Dennis Rose is a qualified practising Surveyor and Geospatial Specialist with 50 years’ experience in the industry, including extensive technical and administrative business management. Dennis is an Australian citizen and has lived in Thailand for the past 28 years. He is Managing Director of AAM (Thailand) Co., Ltd., an independent Thai registered private company which he founded in 1992. A significant amount of his company and project management activities has been in Thailand and Lao PDR, providing services to the mining industry in both countries, being associated with the Akara Gold Mining Project in Thailand and both the Sepon and Phu Bia Mining Projects in Lao PDR.
Wayne Pope
Mining Manager
Wayne is an Australian based Mining Engineer with over 38 years’ experience in mine operations, technical services, project evaluation and development in Aus-tralia as well as Kenya across a diverse range of commodities; precious and base metals and mineral sands. Wayne has held senior management positions for large multinational and inde-pendent resource companies such as: BHP NiWest Resource Development, WMC/Goldfields Agnew operations and resource development, Base Titanium Mineral Sands (Kenya) operations, Image Resources Mineral Sands operations, Evolution Mining Gold Studies and Pasminco.
Theerapong Jarit-ngam
Engineering Manager
A Mining Engineer with 25 years experience in managing the Process Operation Department of the Chatree Gold Mine (Thailand) and the Ambatovy Nickel Project (Madagascar).
Robert Taylor
Operations Manager
More than 20 years’ experience in the design, delivery and management of Information and communications technology (ICT) solutions to mining projects in remote locations. Expertise in scaling ICT throughout the mining lifecycle from exploration to production including application and data requirements, policies and processes, managing and controlling access to information and resources including logical and physical security. Example projects include Wedgetail Exploration and Millennium Minerals Nullagine Western Australia (WA), Vimy Resources Mulga Rock (WA), China Gold Mines (Hunan China), Zambezi Resources (Zambia).
Vangsane Sengnouvong
Geologist
Vangsane has over 25 years of experience in mineral exploration after graduating in Master level from the University of the former Soviet Union (Russia), studying geological and geophysical faculties from 1987 - 1993. Particular experience in sedimentary hosted Au, epithermal gold, porphyry Cu/Au and skarn types, meso-thermal gold, volcanic massive sulphide systems, carbonated replacement and alluvium gold and sapphire exploration.
Robert McPherson
Consulting Geologist
Robert McPherson is an accomplished Australian geologist with over 30 years of domestic and international experience in mineral exploration, project evaluation, and mine development across both brownfield and greenfield settings. He has held senior roles with leading mining companies including WMC, Rio Tinto, Lihir Gold, Barrick Gold, Glencore (Kazakhstan), and Resolute Mining (Mali). Now operating as an independent consultant, Robert specialises in global resource project assessments and mine development evaluations. His expertise spans JORC 2012 code-compliant resource reporting, advanced geological modelling, geostatistical analysis, and the integration of GIS data for strategic planning. Known for his practical approach and sound technical judgement, he brings a solid track record of delivering results and building stakeholder confidence across a broad range of mining projects.
Knonesavangh Vansana
Metallurgist​
Mr Vansana has a Bachelor of Science in Extractive Metallurgy from Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia and a Master of Business Administration from Charles Sturt University, Sydney, New South Wales. A metallurgist with more than 10 years’ experience working in production, technical, and leadership roles in a mineral processing environment on mine sites along with significant experience in process plant operations, analysis and improvement, production metallurgy, commissioning, project and operations management, quality control and SSHEC & Risk Management.
Vanlay Douangsavanh
Engineering
Has a Bachelor of Science (Mining) Degree from Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia and Civil Engineering from National University of Loas. Employed as Senior Mine Production Engineer at MMG-LXML Sepon Mine, Laos.
Tanya Oliver
Administrator
Tanya has dedicated over 30 years to working alongside the Executive Management team, where she has played a pivotal role in overseeing all aspects of administration management. She leads the corporate and head office administration team with professionalism, ensuring seamless operations, organisational efficiency, and strong alignment with executive priorities.