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Organisational Structure |
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The company has
allocated the initial management structure to setup
the explorationa and mining operations.
Further mining engineers and metallurgists will be
added to the management team as the project is
developed and the team expands.
Most of the
management will be allocated from South Africa and
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| Chanan Deluya – Managing Director |
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Head of sales,
marketing and finance. Founder of Libra Pty Ltd
(Australia).
25 years experience in finance, management and
marketing.
Extensive experience in marketing minerals mainly in
Asia and Africa.
Chanan spent a great deal of time and effort in
recent years to explore the mining sector in Africa
(Congo and Zambia) and Indonesia (identified 3
promising gold sites in Padang, Sumatra) and
developed good contacts and deep understanding of
the best areas to focus on.
He is in charge on fund raising to support the
project requirements.
He has also identified further projects in Asia for
Nickel, Gold, Coal and Tin that are under
negotiation. |
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| Hon. Anson Simama – Director and secretary of the project companies |
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A Member of the Parliament of Zambia, . He assists us with any problems we may face with any local authority and considered by us as an insurance policy for Zambia. |
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| Dr Aharon F.M. Aharon –
B.Sc., M.App.Sc., Ph.D Senior
Consulting Geologist |
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B.Sc (Geology), Auckland University, New Zealand.
M.App.Sc. (Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology), University of NSW, Australia.
Ph.D. (Chemistry), University of NSW, Australia.
Member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Member of the Geological Society of Australia.
A professional geologist and hydrogeologist for 25 years.
Consultant to many mining projects in QLD, NT, SA and NSW – nickel (Western Mining, Kambalda), gold (WMC, Salt Lake), lead-zinc-copper (Goulburn, NSW) , uranium (Mary Kathleen), coal (BHP and MIM in Qld) - mostly hydrogeology (Australian Groundwater), locating groundwater in all types of geological environments.
Several years, regional manager of an exploration company in Queensland focusing on exploration, drilling, regional and structural analysis, resource evaluation and project management.
Many years in academia following a research path in chemical oceanography and hydro-metallurgy, and tutoring in geology and chemistry. Recently, published several papers describing and analysing the groundwater resources of an area of Central NSW. |
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| ANDREW FALCONER – Director of Metallurgy |
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1978 University of Otago, New Zealand - Master of Mineral Technology
1973 University of Birmingham, England - Bachelor of Science (honours) in Minerals Engineering
A metallurgist with over 30 years experience, primarily in titanium, tantalum and tin minerals including wet and dry gravity, magnetic and electrostatic separation processes.
Andrew was involved in production plants and development projects in Australia, Africa, India and South America. Strengths include plant commissioning, metallurgical accounting, data analysis, flow sheet evaluation, production optimization, pilot plants, operator training and environmental matters. He worked with many mining companies including: Xstrata Ltd, Gippsland Ltd, Bluestone Tin Ltd, Downer EDI Ltd, AITCOBOL, SGS Lakefield, Sons of Gwalia and Iluka Resources (CV attached). |
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| P J (BASIE) FOURIE – Exploration
Consultant. M.Sc. (Geology); B.Sc. (Hons); B.Sc |
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M.Sc. (Geology), Rand Afrikaans University (now University of Johannesburg). B.Sc. Hons (Geology), Rand Afrikaans University B.Sc.(Geology and Geography), Rand Afrikaans University.
Basie is a Registered Professional Natural Scientist at SACNASP and as such a competent person for reporting of mineral resources (SAMREC Code) for listings on the JSE (Johannesburg Stock Exchange);
Member of the Geological Society of South Africa.
A geologist with many years experience in management roles in Africa, from senior geologist to general manager of many mining projects.
Over the years he has worked in countries like South Africa (home country), Namibia, Madagascar, Botswana and Kenya with many mining firms including: Mupane Gold, Sallies, Kenya Fluorspar Company, Vergenoeg Mining Company, Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company (JCI), Klein Aub Copper Company and FOSKOR.
Basie has issued a geological review of our tin deposit based on his visit, our exploration works and past data (report attached) |
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| Amram Serfaty – Project Director BEcon/BCom |
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BEcon/BCom (Economics and Finance) Murdoch University of Western Australia
Amram has 19 years of experience in the mining industry. This includes “hands on”, one year drilling and blasting in Timna underground copper mine, three years in Iron Baron South Australia, and 15 years experience in management, production, drilling, blasting, haulage, crushing, storage sampling and ship loading with BHP Iron Ore Koolan Island Western Australia including drillers training in Mont Newman for BHP Billiton.
Experience includes exploration and production with various types of equipment, hard and soft rock, Tropical and desert climates, single and multi pits and processes, open pit and underground mine. He is fluent in French, Hebrew, Arabic and English. |
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| Mika Airisniemi – Chief Executive Officer and Director |
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Mika has spent the last 15 years in Zambia, Congo and Angola (mostly in Zambia) in the minerals and timber sectors.
He is a processing engineer from Finland and a very efficient and reliable executive and manager.
He designed and built Libra's prototype for the processing line.
Management roles include: 1993 – 1999 Mikaira Mills Ltd, Kitwe – General Manager and Owner. 1999 – 2002 General Manager of Zambian operations of Wadi Al Rawda Trading of UAE employing 75 people. 2002 – 2006 Apila Timber Limited, Kitwe – General Manager and Owner – 65 employees.
2006 to date he is the CEO of Libra Minerals Ltd and managed up to 120 people at the pitting and trenching stage. |
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| Ali Ismail – Mining Engineer Consultant |
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B.Sc., Shareholder. He is a mining engineer from Egypt with over 20 years of mining management roles in Zambia.
He is an expert on Zambia resources and has experience in mining management and mineral processing in Zambia including mine manager for Hetro Mining Ltd. in Kalengwa and Chifumba mines in the copper belt of Zambia, Mining Engineer for Sedgwick Company of Australia, Mining Engineer for Bruce Mining and Construction, Mining Engineer for Arinas Mine, Ndola, Shift Manager in Om El-Hewaitate Mine, Mining Engineer in Nassif Mine in the Red Sea Area and Inspector of Mines Safety for the Ministry of Mines of Zambia. |
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| Gary Wagner – Director - transport and logistics. |
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He is an expert in logistic and knows the Southern part of Africa very well.
Gary will set up all the logistic chain including road transport, warehousing, container loading, sea freight and all the documents.
Gary has spent many years in Zambia and has contacts in the right places. He is currently the manager of Gauteng Province of South Africa at RB Freight Management. |
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| Roy Raniga – Director |
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Roy Raniga is in charge of marketing in Asia. He is the head of investment of Libra Pty Ltd and has worked for many years in marketing mining products in Australia and Asia.
Roy's career included working with Westpac Banking Corporation (Australia's first bank) and Williams Consolidated Industries as their Asian Business Development Manager.
He was also associated with GFI Group, Singapore Office and Hartsfield Capital Investment Bank. |
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