Directors
Chief Executive
Mr Churchouse is a geologist with 25 years' experience, including 14 years in Africa with Johannesburg Consolidated Industries as a senior mine geologist, for Anglo American-Namibia as a senior geologist, and for Gold Fields Namibia and Gold Fields Ghana. He has also spent 7 years working on exploration and mining projects in Eastern Europe including the position of mine manager of a 2.5 Mtpy tailings reclamation project.
Martyn Churchouse, Chief Executive Officer, is responsible for overseeing production and exploration programmes as well as acquisition of new mining projects and exploration licenses.
Managing Director, South Africa
Cedric Bredenkamp has both a broad and practical experience of the South African diamond industry ranging from plant construction and operation through to general management of subsidiaries of publicly quoted companies. Mr Bredenkamp is also experienced in concrete production and design and plant construction having been involved from the outset with the development of commercial brick and paving manufacture in the Northern Cape. Since 1991 Cedric Bredenkamp has served as general manager of Supermix Mining (Proprietary) Limited and Bix Africa 546 (Proprietary) Limited and as managing director of the South African operations of Dwyka Resources Limited.
Mr Bredenkamp has day to day responsibility for management of the assets and operations in South Africa and Tanzania, reporting directly to Mr Churchouse in the UK.
Non-Executive Chairman
Melissa Sturgess holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Masters in Business Administration. After an early career with British Airways plc and Mallesons Stephens Jacques, an Australian legal firm, she formed her own consulting company in 1994 to work in the corporate development and promotion of a range of public companies, including Aquarius Platinum Limited where she was responsible for attracting institutional shareholders. In addition to her role at Dwyka Resources Limited, Melissa is currently a non-executive director of three companies whose shares are traded on AIM, being Bezant Resources plc, Churchill Mining PLC and Sylvania Resources Limited (whose shares are also traded on the ASX).
Ms Sturgess is non-executive Chairman of KimCor, Chairman of KimCor's Audit Committee and a member of its Remuneration Committee.
Non-Executive Director
Mr. Harris has 40 years' experience in the mining industry
spanning activity across the globe and a wide
range of resources including uranium, base metals, industrial
minerals and precious metals. He has held a
number of executive positions with overall responsibility for
large mining and refining operations and
chemical plants and has overseen a number of projects and related
financings. He is currently Executive
Chairman of Central Gold Securities plc. He is a Chartered Engineer
and is a member of the Institute of
Materials Minerals and Mining, the US Society for Mining Metallurgy
and Exploration and the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum.
Mr Harris is a non-executive director of KimCor, Chairman of KimCor's Remuneration
Committee and a member of it's Audit Committee.
Officers
Company Secretary and Head of Finance


