James Jim Richards

Mr Richards is a Perth based Company director and geologist with 25 years of experience in exploration for a wide variety of commodities. Prior to the ASX listing of Phosphate Australia Limited (now Gibb River Diamonds Limited), Mr Richards was the chief executive officer and director of United Minerals Corporation NL (UMC). At UMC, Mr Richards led the technical team that discovered the high-grade iron 'Railway Deposit' in the Pilbara. BHP Billiton acquired the Railway Deposit in February 2010 by a take over of UMC for AUD$204 million. Mr Richards has overseas experience including running his own alluvial diamond dredging operation in Guyana, South America and work on the Omai gold project (that became a major mine) also in Guyana. Other resources work includes operating in Indonesia and two years spent in both Laos and Pakistan.