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Kevin Wills, Managing Director
ARSM, PhD, FAusIMM

Dr Kevin Wills is a geologist with 31 years experience in multi commodity mineral exploration including uranium exploration, feasibility studies and mine operations in Australasia. Dr Wills spent seven years with CRA Exploration Pty Ltd, the highlight of which was involvement with the location and evaluation of the Argyle Diamond Deposit. Later, with Penarroya Australia Pty Ltd, his work led to an expansion of reserves at Thalanga and the discovery of the Waterloo base metals deposit.

In the late 1980s, Dr Wills was exploration manager with Metana Minerals NL. He built up a successful exploration team which extended known gold orebodies and made new discoveries. In the early 1990s Dr Wills was regional exploration manager with Dominion Mining Ltd, based in Adelaide. His work on the Gawler Craton led to the development of a calcrete sampling technique which, later on, was instrumental in the Challenger gold discovery.

Recently, Dr Wills resigned as a founding director of Adelaide Resources Ltd and he is currently managing director of Maximus Resources Limited. He is a recent past chairman of the Adelaide Branch of the AusIMM and the Exploration Committee at the South Australian Chamber of Mines and Energy.