Charles Charlie Bass

Mr Bass worked as a geologist and then plant metallurgist at Patino Mines copper-gold mine in northern Quebec. While there, he won the Canadian Mineral Industry Scholarship to study mineral processing at Queen's University. After Queens, in 1976, Charles joined AMAX Inc, an American mining company in their Head Office and came to Perth in 1978 for a two-year secondment to Mt Newman Mining. He then spent almost two years at the Twin Buttes copper mine near Tucson, Arizona. Charles returned to Australia and established a consulting and mining software company, Metech Pty Ltd in early 1982. He formed Eagle Mining Corporation in 1992 with Tony Poli and was responsible for the deal that led to the discovery of the very successful Nimary Gold Mine, now part of Northern Star's Jundee operation. In addition to his role as Managing Director of EM2, Charles is involved in his various family businesses. He is the founder and Chairman of the Centre of Entrepreneurial Research and Innovation (CERI).