I find today's news rather interesting, and another piece that...

I find today's news rather interesting, and another piece that is now added to the jigsaw. It seems strange for us to appoint someone with such knowledge of underground and opencut mining when we don't have enough money to mine, or do we?

Mr Robert Thomson as a Non-Executive Director. Mr Thomson has executive career spanning over many years, particularly in developing underground and open-cut mining internationally and locally. His achievements include Finders Resources’ Wetar Project in Indonesia, Kingsgate’s Chatree open-cut gold mine in Thailand, Climax Mining’s Didipio project in Philippines, Asian Mineral Resources Ban Phuc underground nickel/copper concentrate development in Vietnam and Oxiana’s Sepon open-cut CIL gold mine in Laos. He was CEO of Climax Mining’s Didipio project and was instrumental in putting the project into early development which then merged with Oceana Gold Limited. In addition, he was the founding Director and later CEO of Asian Mineral Resources. Mr Thomson’s early experience include roles at BHP, Rio Tinto and Plutonic. Currently, Mr Thomson is a Non-Executive Director of One Asia Resources Limited and Estelle Resources Limited.

I obviously have heard this news the same time as all of you but will be having a look at Mr Thomson's record in a little more detail.