Robert Bob Besley

Mr Besley has more than 40 years' experience in the mining industry. Mr Besley has served in a number of Government and industry advisory roles including several years as Deputy Chairman of the NSW Minerals Council. He managed the creation, listing and operation of two mining companies; CBH Resources Limited which he led as Managing Director from a small exploration company to Australia's 4th largest zinc producer; and Australmin Holdings Limited (acquired by Newcrest) which brought into production a gold mine in WA and mineral sands mine in NSW. More recently he was a founding Director of KBL Mining Limited which operated the Mineral Hill copper-gold mine in NSW and was Chairman of Silver City Minerals Limited, which explored for silver lead zinc in the Broken Hill District. He was a non-executive and independent Director of Murray Zircon from commencement of development and production of the Mindarie Mineral Sands Project until June 2016. He also serves on the Company's audit & risk, remuneration & nomination, and hedge committees. Mr Besley has not been a director of any other listed public companies in the past 3 years.