Technical Teams

Botswana Technical Team

Adam Wooldridge

BSc Hons Pr.Sci.Nat.

Adam is a founding partner and CEO of KML and has played an active role in developing the Company’s exploration projects over the last five years. An experienced geophysicist and geologist with over 25 years’ experience in Africa, the Middle East and Europe, he has worked in exploration management and consulting positions across a variety of deposit types specialising in large-scale multi-disciplinary target generation.

Dr Ross McGowan

PhD

Dr Ross McGowan is the CEO and Managing Director of ASX-Listed copper-nickel explorer, Armada Metals Limited (ASX: AMM). He is also a Non-Executive Director of Cobre and is the founder of the Resource Exploration & Development Group. Ross has been involved corporately, technically and academically with the mining industry in Africa for over 20 years and was a member of the original Kamoa (DRC) discovery team, with Ivanhoe Mines, and is a co-recipient of the 2015 PDAC Thayer Lindsley Award for an international Mineral Discovery. He conducted his PhD research on the sediment-hosted copper deposits of the Zambian Copperbelt.

David Catterall

MSc Pr. Sci. Nat.

Dave Catterall is a geologist with over 36 years’ operational and field-based experience in mineral exploration throughout Africa and Europe in a wide range of commodities but specialising in structurally controlled precious and base metals deposits. He has worked extensively on the Copperbelt and Kalahari Copper Belt, both in Namibia and Botswana having gained first-hand experience on several of the known deposits of Boseto and Zone 5 along with belt-scale expertise.

Thomas Krebs

MSc Pr. Sci. Nat

Thomas Krebs is a geologist with over 15 years’ experience in exploration and consulting in Africa with a focus on copper and gold related projects. Thomas played an important role in securing KML’s original tenement holding.

Western Australia Technical Team

Todd Axford

Geologist with 23 years experience

After a career spanning mine and exploration geology across various commodities, in 2010 Todd started Geological Services company Geko-Co Pty Ltd where he is Director and Principal Geologist. Todd is engaged in various projects and roles for listed and unlisted companies such as Cliffs Asia Pacific, Torian Resources NL, Resources & Energy Group, New Gold Inc. and Rimfire Pacific Mining NL.

Dr Dennis Gee

Geologist with more than 40 years experience

Extensive experience in exploration geology and the gold, nickel, copper and zinc mining industries. He was Supervising Geologist at the Geological Survey of WA leading a large team recording the State’s Precambrian geology.

Cobre is pleased to partner with service providers: Remote Exploration Services; Mitchell Drilling International; WSP and METS Engineering

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