Board
ROBERT H DUFFIN – EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
BSc (Hons), MSc (Hons), Grad Dip Mgt, FAusIMM
Bob Duffin is a company director with over 35 years’ experience in resource exploration and project assessment, including over 20 years’ experience in mining investment analysis, project valuations and assessments of fair value of securities.
Bob has held senior positions in the exploration divisions of Peko Wallsend Ltd and MIM Holdings Ltd, then two of Australia’s largest mining companies, and is a former managing director of Austirex International Ltd, an international resource exploration consulting and contracting firm. He has lived and worked in mining communities, including periods in Kalgoorlie in Western Australia and Mount Isa in Queensland, where he worked on exploration programs for a number of commodities, including gold, copper, uranium, base metals and iron ore. He has also worked with three stockbroking firms and was head of research at one of Australia’s leading resource sector brokers in the 1980s.
Bob was a director of Ferrowest Ltd from 27 July 2019 until 8 September 2011. He was a non-executive director of Centennial Coal Company Limited from 1992 until 2018. He is a former director of the UK resources investment company Europa Minerals Group PLC and a former director of a number of other mining and resources companies including Austmin Gold NL, Burmine Limited and Midwest Corporation Limited.
MARTIN JACOBSEN – MANAGING DIRECTOR & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
MSCC, MDP (Unisa)
Martin Jacobsen joined WPG from his previous position as Vice President, Operations, with Golden China Resources Limited, a gold mining and exploration company with project assets in China. Prior to that he was Technical Director with Emperor Mines Limited and had earlier held senior management positions in gold, chrome and platinum mining operations in South Africa. He has been project manager for a number of projects in a wide range of commodities and mine types. Martin’s principal function with WPG is to manage all phases of WPG's mining and exploration projects. He was appointed Managing Director in October 2013.
GARY J JONES – TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
BSc, FAusIMM, MSEG
Gary Jones is a geologist with over 40 years professional experience in mineral exploration and resource and reserve estimation for various type of mineral deposits including porphyry copper-gold and epithermal gold. He is Managing Director of Geonz Associates Ltd, a leading New Zealand firm of consulting geologists, and has been an independent consultant to the mining industry for the past 24 years during which time assignments have been completed in many parts of the world including Australia, Indonesia, North and South America, Canada and New Zealand.
Prior to setting up his own consultancy Gary worked as an exploration geologist for Geopeko for 15 years in various parts of Australia including 12 years in central New South Wales where he established and managed a new exploration operation for Geopeko. During this time he supervised numerous base and precious metal projects throughout the Lachlan Fold Belt and parts of the New England region and is credited with the discovery of the Northparkes porphyry copper-gold deposits.
Following the initial discoveries at Goonumbla, Gary also had a major input into the pegging of a large block of exploration licences in the Lake Cowal region. He planned and supervised the initial regional exploration programs that ultimately led to the discovery of the 4.4 million ounce Cowal porphyry gold deposit. Early in his career Gary worked on iron ore exploration and mining activities in the Northern Territory.
LEN DEAN – NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
BSc (Met)
Len Dean has had a 40 year career in the resources sector, with particular emphasis in the global iron ore industry. He spent 36 years with BHP, finishing in 2000 as Vice President, Coal and Iron Ore Marketing. During his period with BHP he was General Manager, Marketing for BHP Iron Ore in Perth for 8 years, he managed iron ore mining operations at BHP’s Yampi Sound mine, and he lived and worked at BHP’s (now OneSteel’s) Whyalla works for 3 years. He was Managing Director of Sesa Goa Limited, India’s largest private sector exporter of iron ore, from 2003 to 2019. More recently, he has been an iron ore consultant with a wide client base including Orinoco Iron (Venezuela), Mitsui Iron Ore Development, CVRD (Brazil) and Mineral Enterprises Limited (India).
DENNIS R MUTTON – NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
BSc (Hons), Grad Dip Mgt, JP, FAIM, FAICD
Dennis Mutton is a management consultant specialising in natural resource management, primary industries and resources, regional growth initiatives and business-government relations. From 1997 to 2002 he was Chief Executive of the South Australian Department of Primary Industries and Resources. He has a portfolio of directorships including Bio Innovation SA, and is Chair of the Council of Rural Research and Development Corporations. He is a former member of the Senior Management Council of the South Australian Government, a former Director of Mines, and a former Director of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation. Dennis lives in Adelaide.
LIM SEE YONG – NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
BBA (Singapore)
Lim See Yong is General Manager and Director of Xin Sheng International Private Limited, a trading company related to Tangshan Xingye Industrial and Trade Group Corporation, an investor in raw materials for the steel industry. He spent 11 years with NatSteel Trade International, a Singapore mill that produces bars and wire rods from scrap. He was NatSteel’s chief representative in China for 7 years from 1995. From 2002 to 2019 he was in charge of selling iron ore and steel products to China, and exporting semi and finished steel products to South East Asian markets. See Yong lives in Singapore.
