Bachelor of Engineering (Mining Hons 1)—Master of Business Administration—Member of Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) – Chartered Professional Mining Engineer, Member of the Mining Industry Consultants Association (MICA)

Geoff has 40 years' experience in the New South Wales and Queensland coal industries with a background in open cut and underground operations, new mine development and the preparation of feasibility studies. Geoff has worked as a consultant for the last 15 years. He has developed particular skills in the areas of dragline operations, the application of mining technologies, mineral economics and finance, software development, strategic planning and project management.

Geoff has managed and performed major feasibility and prefeasibility studies, strategic studies at both the corporate and business unit level, technical and due diligence reviews, financial studies and valuations, equipment comparisons and justifications, rehabilitation studies and short and long term planning. Geoff is also a Competent Person under the JORC Code.

Bachelor of Engineering - Master of Engineering (Mining Management) - Graduate Member of Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM)

Michael is an experienced engineer with specialisations in mining engineering, mine design and software engineering. His software engineering experience covers software design, database design, data analysis, information retrieval, simulation and graphics. Michael has been involved in preparing mine designs, schedules, reserves and cost estimates for mining studies. These studies have included Drayton South (dragline open cut), Dartbrook (shovel/truck and crusher/conveyor open cut), Lake Lindsay (short term dragline design), and Yamala (open cut and underground longwall and pillar mining). His latest project has been the evaluation of a greenfields open cut mining operation including highwall mining technologies.

Michael has developed a truck simulation and short term scheduling system for Warkworth Mine and a database system to collect and manage personnel and equipment details for contracting companies. Michael has also developed the:

• GPPH dragline simulation software;
• scheduling;
• costing database and cost forecasting system;
• GPPH Excel functions library

Michael is a proficient MINEX user with acQuire database experience. He specialises in data analysis and information recovery and has developed custom Excel data extraction for laboratory reports. He is proficient in the use of the following programming languages Visual Basic, Java, C, C#, SQL, VHDL and Visual Basic for Applications. He has designed databases in Access, Oracle, MS-SQL and My SQL.

Bachelor of Technology (Mining) - Masters of Technology (Surface Mining) 1st Class Honors - Mine Managers Certificate of Competency (Restricted) - Fellow of Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM)

Tapan is an experienced mining engineer with post graduate qualifications in surface mining. He has worked in all facets of mining operations and drilling and blasting for 35 years. He takes a keen interest in the areas of minimising coal damage and loss and delivering cost down projects.

Tapan previously worked for 24 years at Orica rising through the ranks to become the Global Chief Mining Engineer. He has been working as a consultant since 2017. His clients have included Middlemount Coal, BME, Action Drill & Blast and Moncourt Group. Tapan's skills are maximising mineral recovery, licence to operate compliance and ensuing best practice on mine sites.

B.Sc (Geology). MAusIMM

Lynne is a geologist with more than 25 years experience, who has extensive experience in both the coal and metalliferous mining industries.

Lynne has been consulting to the industry since 1986 initially as Senior Geologist with Maptek Pty Limited for over ten years, and then as a Senior Consulting Geologist. Her special area of expertise is in using computer applications for resource analysis and modelling, particularly the Vulcan software package. She has held lead roles in many diverse projects including the preparation of geological models for both coal and metals deposits, JORC resources and reserves estimation, Mining Feasibility studies, Mine Planning, Geological Data analysis and Database design. Lynne is a Competent Person under the JORC Code.