Board of Directors

Mr Polglase has a Bachelor of Engineering First Class Honours degree in Metallurgy from the Camborne School of Mines and Higher National Certificates in both Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering.  He is currently Principal Engineer and Director of Kernow Mining Consultants Ltd.

Mr Polglase began his career at the South Crofty Tin Mine in Cornwall.  Since then he has accumulated over 40 years’ international experience working in multiple mining disciplines for companies including AngloGold Ashanti Ltd, Rio Tinto Ltd, TVX Gold Inc. and Ivernia Inc. in Africa, Europe, the Former Soviet Union, Australia, and, for the last decade, in Brazil. 

Mr Polglase has significant experience in the development, execution and operation of new mining projects, having been responsible for, or closely involved with, the commissioning of over seven mines, both open-pit and underground inclusive of plant and maintenance management

Mr Polglase was the Founder and Managing Director of ASX listed Avanco Resources Ltd, which he led from pre-IPO into production in Brazil.  The company was acquired by OZ Minerals for A$418 million in 2018 ranking Avanco Resource Ltd as the most successful ASX copper company in Brazil.  Both Mr Polglase and Mr Azevedo worked together at Avanco from IPO through to the acquisition by OZ Minerals. Mr. Polglase is, and has been, a director of numerous Australian and Canadian resource companies.  He is currently a director of ASX listed Black Cat Syndicate Ltd and New World Resources Ltd.

He was named Brazil Mining Executive of the Year in 2017.

Mr Polglase is British and Australian national and is fluent in Portuguese.

Mr Quin is a graduate of the Royal School of Mines, London, with a BSc (Honours) in Mining Geology and has 41 years’ experience in all stages of the mining industry, from exploration to operations and closure.  Currently, he serves as Director of Kutcho Copper Corp. since late 2017. He is also a director of West Vault Mining, Inc since 2022 and a director of Hot Chilli Ltd. since December 2022.

Most recently, he was the President, CEO and Director of Midas Gold Corp. from the inception of the Company in February 2011 to December 2020.  Prior to joining Midas Gold, Mr Quin was President of copper miner Capstone Mining Corp. from November 2008 until the end of 2010 (and COO of same from November 2008 until May 2010) and, prior to that, President and CEO of Sherwood Copper Corp. from September 2005 until November 2008 when Sherwood merged with Capstone.  

Mr Quin also spent 18 years with gold producer and explorer Miramar Mining Corp. and was Executive Vice President from January 1994 until September 2005.  Since 1990, Mr Quin has raised over US$1 billion in financing and been involved with more than US$750 million in M&A for companies where he was CEO or a senior executive.  Mr Quin  served as a Non-Executive Director of Chalice Mining Ltd, with its PGM-gold-nickel-copper development project in Western Australia from May 2010 until his retirement in November 2021.  Mr Quin has also served on the boards of directors of numerous exploration, development and operating companies since 1990, as a director of the Mining Association of BC and the Mining Association of Canada, and as Chair of the Yukon Government’s Mineral Advisory Board.

Mr Comline is a graduate of the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa with a BSc (Honours) in Geology.  He also has a MSc in Geology from the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada and a Management Diploma from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has 50 years’ of experience in all stages of the mining industry, including extensive platinum group metal (PGM) expertise.  

Since 2014 he has served as a Director and Africa representative of Walcot Gold Ltd, a private Australian company, in addition he also has his own private exploration companies.  

From 1997 to 2007 he was involved with TSX listed AfriOre Ltd, initially as VP Exploration and ultimately as Chairman, when the company was sold to LSE Lonmin PLC, a PGM producer, in 2007 for C$444 million. AfriOre Ltd had a variety of base metal, gold and PGM exploration projects, including the flagship Akanani PGM project, plus an operating coal mine.  

Between 2008 and 2012, he served as a Director and Interim CEO of TSX listed Talon Metals Corp., a gold, iron ore and potash explorer in Brazil.  He was also a director of TSX listed Rio Verde Minerals Development Corp. (potash and phosphate in Brazil) between 2008 and 2010 and a director of Saber Energy Ltd (coal bed methane in Botswana) between 2009 and 2012.  Between 2007 and 2009 he was also a Non Executive Director of AIM listed Chaarat Mining Corp., which was exploring for gold in the Kyrgyz Republic.  

Between 1995 and 1997 Mr Comline was an independent consultant advising banks and mining industry companies on exploration strategy and divesture of mineral assets.  Between 1981 and 1995 he was with JCI Ltd, a major South African mining company, initially as Exploration Manager, advancing to General Manager responsible for JCI’s Geology Department.  He worked on copper and tungsten in Namibia, gold in the Witwatersrand and PGM exploration projects and mines in the Bushveld Complex and the Great Dyke in Southern Africa.  Mr Comline also had previous roles as Senior Exploration Geologist for Anglo American Gold in Southern Africa and Exploration Geologist for JCI Ltd focused on nickel, copper and PGM exploration and mining projects on mafic complexes in Zimbabwe, Angola and South Africa. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of South Africa.

Mr Comline is a British national and South African permanent resident.