Cobre Nuevo Exploration

Rod Davies is a Sydney-based exploration geologist with a track record of significant discovery in a career that has been dominated by projects in the world’s young volcanic arcs. This has included project generation and exploration management roles where multi-million ounce gold and multi-million tonne copper resources have been discovered. Rod has also been responsible for identifying billion tonne non-metallic resources at high grade in a well-studied sedimentary basin. During the 1980’s Rod was Kennecott’s Site Manager and Chief Geologist on their Lihir Island project and was credited with the Minifie discovery and lead the team that drilled the first holes into the Kapit orebody. In 2004, Rod was engaged by Vale to manage their porphyry projects in Mongolia, a role that grew to project generation in Asia and beyond. Rod was intimately involved in the development of an exploration strategy for large copper-gold resources that led to Indonesia and the discovery of the world class Onto copper-gold deposit in 2014. Of late, Rod has been heavily involved in project generation for epithermal gold deposits in Japan. Rod is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists with a B.Sc. Honours in Mining Geology and a M.Sc. in Remote Sensing and GIS.

Mike Rennison has over 25 years experience in the mineral exploration industry, across multiple countries and a broad range of commodities, with particular emphasis on copper exploration. Mike has held senior technical and management roles for BHP, Freeport and Vale. He has significant global business development and project assessment experience along with experience managing large, multi-country, multi-commodity exploration teams in the Asia-Pacific region. Mike has a strong technical and operational background, including brownfield exploration, and a particular interest in porphyry geochemistry. Mike played a leading role in the discovery of the world-class Onto copper-gold deposit in Indonesia that is now at an advanced resource stage. Mike graduated from the University of Canterbury with B.Sc. Honours degree in Geology and is a Member of The Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy.

David Burt is an exploration geoscientist with over 25 years experience in the mining industry across numerous countries and commodities with a strong focus on copper in the Americas and Asia Pacific. David has held senior technical roles in geophysics, project generation, project appraisal and exploration management for a number of large companies. David has a wealth of experience in mineral exploration and project generation and has managed exploration teams across a diverse range of geographic and cultural environments. He has a strong interest in the large-scale earth processes which lead to the development of porphyry systems. While in Argentina he was directly involved in the discovery of the Eureka vein at the Cerro Negro epithermal gold project. He was the Exploration Manager of Indonesia during the discovery of the Onto copper-gold deposit. Most recently David has been working in Ecuador for BHP in their project generation group. David has a B.App.Sc. degree in Geophysics and is a Member of The Australasian Institute of Geoscientists.