Garry Lowder has over 40 years experience as a professional geologist, including more than 30 years in exploration, mostly in Australia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. In Australia he has worked extensively in the Lachlan and New England Fold Belts of NSW, the Eastern Goldfields, Pilbara and Kimberley regions of WA, and in both northwestern and eastern Queensland, where he has explored for many different types of metallic deposit, including porphyry-type copper-gold, Archaean greenstone gold, epithermal gold-silver and volcanogenic massive sulphides. He has enjoyed discovery success in North Sulawesi, Indonesia (copper), at Paddington near Kalgoorlie in WA (gold), at Wodgina in the Pilbara of WA (tantalum) and especially in NSW at Parkes (copper-gold) and Lake Cowal (gold). He is a specialist in porphyry-type deposits, where his petrological expertise can be especially well applied. Garry has extensive experience in all the usual commercial matters that form part of the exploration business and has held senior management positions in both the private sector and state government, including four years as Director General of Mines in NSW. He is also a non-executive director of the listed mining company Straits Resources Limited.

Dr Lowder is a graduate of the University of Sydney (B.Sc. Hons I), the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D.) and the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School. He brings to the company high level management expertise and a track record of prior exploration success.

Russell Meares is a geologist with over 30 years experience in mineral exploration and mining. He has worked extensively in both technical and management roles throughout Australia, Asia and the South West Pacific and his experience ranges from project generation through to ore reserve estimation and economic evaluation. He played a key role in the discovery of the Golden Grove base metals deposit in Western Australia, the Keremenge gold deposit in Papua New Guinea and the Banana Creek gold prospect in Fiji. His expertise relates particularly to epithermal gold deposits, polymetallic volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits and copper-gold deposits of porphyry style, in eastern Australia and the Pacific Islands.

Mr Meares is a graduate of the University of NSW (B.Sc. Hons I) and James Cook University of North Queensland (M.Sc.). He brings to the company extensive hands-on experience in all aspects of exploration management, exploration technology and the geology of ore deposits.

James A. Dean
(Non-Executive Director)

James Dean has 25 years experience as a tactical strategist for practical solutions to financing and collaborative outcomes for commercial transactions. His experience includes seed, mezzanine, equity and traditional banking solutions applied to the arenas of property development, mining, construction equipment, biotech and film. His business activities have been spread across a global stage with extensive experience in Asia, America and Europe, as well as in his homeland of Australia. Mr Dean was an early stage investor in the Lorena Gold Project and brings a sound understanding of this project to the Board of Malachite, together with his financing skills.