David Netherway
Director
David Netherway
Director
David is a mining engineer with over 40 years of experience in the mining industry. David was involved in the construction and development of the New Liberty, Iduapriem, Siguiri, Samira Hill and Kiniero gold mines in West Africa and has mining experience in Africa, Australia, China, Canada, India and the Former Soviet Union. David served as the CEO of Shield Mining until its takeover by Gryphon Minerals, prior to that he was the CEO of Toronto listed Afcan Mining Corporation, a China focused gold mining company that was sold to Eldorado Gold in 2005. He was also the Chairman of Afferro Mining which was acquired by IMIC in 2013. David has held senior management positions in a number of mining companies including Golden Shamrock Mines, Ashanti Goldfields and Semafo Inc. He is a former director of Altus Resource Capital, Altus Global Gold, African Aura Mining, Afferro Mining, Avesoro Resources and Kilo Goldmines. Mr. Netherway is currently a non-executive Director of Kore Potash [ASX, AIM & JSE: KP2] and Canyon Resources [ASX: CAY].
Steven Poulton
Director
Steven Poulton
Director
Mining Geologist with over 20 years’ experience. Co-founder of Altus Strategies and its exploration subsidiaries. He holds an Honours degree in Geology from Southampton University and a Masters in Mining Geology from the Camborne School of Mines. His career started with Mano River in 1998, joining the board in 2007. In 2002 he co-founded Ariana Resources [AIM: AAU] and was CEO until 2006. Ariana acquired the Sindirgi gold project in Turkey from Newmont in 2004, listed on AIM in 2005 and put Sindirgi into production in 2011. In 2004 he founded and was interim Chairman of African Aura Resources which listed on the TSX-V in 2008 and merged with Mano River in 2009 to create African Aura Mining. In 2011 African Aura Mining was divested into iron ore developer Afferro Mining (acquired in 2013 for approximately US$200m by IMIC) and gold developer Aureus Mining (acquired and subsequently taken private in 2020 by Avesoro Resources), which discovered and operated the first commercial gold mine in Liberia. In 2007 Steven was a founding director of Stellar Diamonds (acquired in 2018 by Newfield Resources [ASX:NWF]), which listed on AIM in 2010 by way of an RTO of West African Diamonds. Stellar defined the Tongo kimberlite diamond discovery in Sierra Leone and in 2021 Tongo produced its first diamonds from underground operations. In 2008 Altus co-founded and Steven was joint Investment Manager to Altus Resource Capital, a closed-ended resource equity fund. The fund listed on the LSE in 2009 and by 2011 had approximately US$150m of AUM. He is a co-founder of industry networking groups 'The Oxford Mining Club' and 'Resource IQ' and is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.