Management

Dr Mark Bennett - CEO and Managing Director

BSc PhD MAusIMM FGS FAIG

Mark Bennett is a geologist with 22 years' experience, predominantly in gold, nickel and base metal exploration and mining. He holds a BSc in Mining Geology from the University of Leicester and a PhD from the University of Leeds and is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, a Fellow of the Geological Society of London and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists.

Mark has worked in Europe, West Africa, and Australia, predominantly for WMC Resources and LionOre. He has held the position of Executive Director, Exploration Manager and Chief Geologist, and has worked at WMC's Kambalda Nickel Operations, Gold Fields' St.Ives Gold Mines, Forrestania Gold's Bounty Gold Mine, and WMC's Melbourne Head Office.

Mark led the highly successful LionOre exploration team and in 2002 received Australia's Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) Prospector of the Year Award in recognition of his discovery of the Thunderbox gold mine and the Waterloo nickel mine. In his previous role as Geology Director for Apex Minerals, Mark was also responsible for increasing the company's gold resource inventory by more than 1 million ounces.

Associate Professor Jeff Foster - Non-Executive Director and Technical Consultant

BSc MSc

Jeff Foster is a geologist with over 20 years worldwide experience in various roles for WMC and BHP, and as a director of the Brisbane-based consultancy Geodiscovery group. He holds BSc and MSc degrees and is also Associate Professor at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits at the University of Tasmania.

He is a renowned authority on nickel deposits, having advised several multinational mining companies and published numerous papers on the subject, and has been involved in the targeting and discovery of nickel sulphides in Canada and Finland.

In addition to his role as a Non-Executive Director, Jeff is a technical consultant to Sirius, providing advice on global opportunities and hands-on exploration expertise.