Board of Directors
Dr Mike Ethe
ridge - PhD, FTSE, FAIG, FAICD
Non-Executive Chairman
Dr Mike Etheridge is a geologist with over 35 years’ experience in exploration, mining, consulting and research.
Until 2004 he was Chairman of the consulting firm SRK Consulting (Australia), having co-founded its predecessor, Etheridge Henley Williams in 1990. Dr Etheridge is an Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University, where he led an industry collaborative research project into improving the management of risk and value in mineral exploration.
He is currently a Non-executive Director of Lihir Gold Ltd (ASX, POMSoX, NASDAQ, TSX), and has been an NED at Consolidated Minerals Ltd (ASX, AIM), Ariana Resources Ltd (AIM), Ballarat Goldfields NL (ASX) and Geoinformatics Exploration Inc (TSX-V), among others, during the last three years. He also chaired the boards of the Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative Research Centre and AuScope Ltd, two major government and industry-funded research bodies.
Mr Darren Holden - BSc Hons, MAusIMM
Managing Director
Mr Holden is a geologist with over 15 years experience in mining and exploration. He is a graduate of the University of Otago (NZ) and The University of Western Australia and is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
Mr Holden has previously held the role of Senior Consultant at Fractal Geoscience and was involved in modeling and targeting on a wide range of deposit styles. Mr Holden was a leading member of the team that won the GoldCorp Challenge in 2001. Mr Holden also held the role of Chief Operating Officer of Geoinformatics Exploration Inc for the period of 2001 to 2009. Mr Holden was based in Vancouver and helped guide Geoinformatics through the GFC and into a merger with Rimfire Minerals Corp to form Kiska Metals Ltd. Under Mr Holden’s exploration tutelage Geoinformatics successfully delineated several new discoveries including a multimillion ounce gold-copper project in Alaska and other base and precious metal discoveries in British Columbia, Nevada and Mexico.
Mr Holden returned to Perth to take up the position of Managing Director at ABM Resources NL.
Dr Nicholas Archibald - BSc(Hons), PhD, FTSE, FAIG, FGSA, FSEG, FAusIMM(CP)
Non-Executive Director
Dr Archibald, a geologist, is best known for his work with the Australian and North American explorations industries. Dr Archibald and his team at Fractal Geoscience won the Goldcorp Challenge in 2001, a global internet-based competition aimed at identifying a further 6MOz of gold at Goldcorp’s Red Lake Mine in NW Ontario, Canada. The success with Goldcorp, now a CN$23 billion major global gold company, gave the team at Fractal Geoscience instant credibility in North America and led to the formation of Geoinformatics Exploration Inc, an exploration company that forged strategic alliances with mining majors across the globe, including Kennecott Exploration, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Goldfields and Goldcorp.
Dr Archibald’s appointment will bring to the Company highly successful intellectual property in exploration, corporate experience and a high-level global network within the mining and financing sector.
Mr I. Kins - BEc.MA
Executive Director
Mr Kins is currently part time Executive Director of ABM Resources NL. Mr Kins is an Economist with over 25 years experience specialising in the resource sector. He has a Bachelor of Economics from the University of WA and a Master of Arts (Futures studies) degree from the Curtin University of Technology.
Mr Kins has worked in the State Government (including industrial and resource development) and then mainly the private sector in regards to the resource sector.
Since 1987 he has mainly worked as a consultant to the resource sector undertaking projects with exploration and mining companies, investors and brokers. He was appointed the Managing Director of the Company in October 2005 and Executive Chairman in April 2007. As from 23 November 2009 he became a part time Executive Director. Mr Kins brings extensive resource sector based strategic planning, macroeconomic and corporate governance experience to the board.
