Mr Don Boyer - Non-executive Chairman
BSc (Hons), CP Geo, FAIMM, MAIG, MAICD
Appointed - 2 August 2004

Mr Boyer is a geologist and resource company manager with over 34 years experience in gold and base metals exploration and management of resource projects in Australia and overseas.  He has considerable experience in exploration management, project management and assessment, feasibility studies and development analysis.  His experience includes responsibility for technical operations from project acquisition through discovery to production and has been instrumental in the listing of a number of successful junior exploration companies.

Mr Boyer was Managing Director of Gilt-Edged Mining NL, from its listing in 1996 until the successful take-over of that company by Goldfields Limited in 2000 and has held management positions in various companies including MIM Holdings Limited’s exploration division, a subsidiary of the French group COGEMA, and a number of listed Australian resource companies, including most recently the Managing Director position with Australian Mines Ltd.

He is also currently the non-executive chairman of Midas Resources Ltd.

Mr Boyer was previously Chairman of Western Areas NL until 28 August 2006.

Mr Mike Rosenstreich - Managing Director
BSc (Hons), MMEE, MAIMM
Appointed - 15 December 2004

Mr Rosenstreich has a strong combination of technical and commercial skills gained over the past 20 years in the banking and mining sectors.  He is a geologist with 12 years of experience gained in both exploration and mining roles including senior management positions with companies including Homestake Mining, Dominion Mining and Consolidated Gold.

Since then he was a senior member of the Rothschild resource finance team where he was involved in domestic and offshore project and corporate financings covering a range of commodity types.  He left Rothschild in late 2002 to become involved with several junior and start-up resources companies in management, corporate advisory and technical consulting roles, which led to this fulltime position with BSM.

Graduating in 1984 from Otago University (NZ) with an Honours degree in Geology, he went on to complete a Masters of Mineral and Energy Economics at Macquarie University in 1996.  He is a member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

Mr Kieran Rodgers - Non-executive Director
B.E. (Hons.) Min. (UNSW), MBA (IMD)
Appointed - 21 March 2005

Mr Rodgers is the Finance Director and Chief Financial Officer of ASX-listed Intec Ltd.

He was appointed an Executive Director of Intec Ltd on 28 February 2007 and is Intec Ltd’s nominated Director on the Board of Bass Metals Ltd.

He joined Intec Ltd in March 2001 after 13 years of experience in merchant banking and financial consulting, largely with Resource Finance Corporation Ltd, with a specific focus on the Australian and international resources industry.

Prior to entering the merchant banking sector, he gained three years of operational mining engineering experience in the gold and base metals industries, including at the Cobar copper mine.

Mr Craig McGown - Non-executive Director
B. Comm, FCA, ASIA
Appointed - 7 July 2004

Mr McGown has more than 30 years experience in corporate finance, covering mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings in both domestic and international financial markets, asset acquisitions and asset disposals, initial public offerings and corporate restructurings.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Western Australia, is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and an Affiliate of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA).

Mr McGown has significant experience with capital raisings in both domestic and foreign financial markets and has been involved in a number of successful capital raising transactions.  Mr McGown has also served on the Boards of a number of listed and unlisted companies including Resource Finance Corporation Limited as an executive director and as the executive chairman of DJ Carmichael Pty Limited.

Ms Susan Hunter - Company Secretary
BCom, ACA, FFSIA (Dip), MAICD (Dip), ACIS (Dip)
Appointed – 28 September 2006

Ms Hunter has over 13 years experience in the corporate finance industry.

She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Western Australia majoring in accounting and finance, is a Member of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants, a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is an Associate Director of consulting firm Norvest Corporate Pty Ltd.

Ms Hunter is also a Member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and Chartered Secretaries Australia and she is currently Company Secretary for three Australian Stock Exchange listed companies, an AIM listed company and several unlisted companies.

Mr Lee Henley – Financial Controller
BCom, ACA, ACIS
Commenced – 10 April 2007

Mr Henley has over 15 years experience in the corporate finance industry.

Mr Henley has extensive experience within the mining sector, having spent nearly 5 years as Resources Controller for Australian heavy minerals producer, Ticor Limited (now owned by South African mining group Exxaro) and as a Financial Accountant with nickel and base metals explorer, Breakaway Resources Limited. 

Mr Henley has over nine years experience in commerce-related roles, and six years experience in public practise accountancy including two years with accountancy group, HLB Mann Judd.  He is a Chartered Accountant, a member of Chartered Secretaries Australia and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia.

Dr Travis Murphy – Exploration Manager; Eastern Australia
B.App.Sc (Hons), PhD
Commenced 13 March 2006

Dr Murphy has 14 years geological mining and exploration experience.

Dr Murphy has a wide breadth of geological experience which includes initially working with WMC Resources at its Kambalda nickel and St Ives gold operations before moving to Delta Gold’s Kanowna Belle Goldmine. Thereafter Dr Murphy moved to Queensland where he completed a PhD investigating the controls on ore formation at MIM’s George Fischer Pb-Zn ore body. Prior to joining Bass Metals, he was Senior Geologist Technical Services for BHP Billiton iron ore.

Mr David Abrahams – Safety & Loss Control Manager
Dip. UB, Dip. OHS Mgt. MIExpE, MIQA, MISEE, MSIA (RSP)
Commenced 26 February 2007

Mr Abrahams has 20yrs experience as a Loss Control practitioner

Mr Abrahams is a specialist Loss Control Practitioner with over  40 years experience in mining, exploration, aluminium smelting, explosives manufacturing and extensive drilling and blasting experience on projects in Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia and Australia.  This also included a project with the Queensland Explosives Inspectorate as a SSAN Project Officer.

Loss Control expertise encompasses the following key areas: Risk Management, Incident Investigation, Security, Training, Task Observation, Inspection and Auditing. Mr Abrahams is an accredited Safety Auditor with RABQSA International.

Mancala Mining Pty – Que River Project Manager

Mancala Mining is a privately owned specialist mine contracting company whose principals have significant operational and mining expertise in Tasmania, including senior roles with Aberfoyle Resources Ltd at the Hellyer and Que River mines now owned by Bass Metals.

 


From left to right Nick Van der Hout, Que River Mine Engineer, Tim Akerman, Mancala Director/Que River Project Manager and Bill Lannen, Mancala Director.