Tim Maclean

Biography

  Tim Maclean is Chief Operating Officer of the Company. He brings more than 25 years of senior management and hands-on technical and production experience in the mining industry, including, building from scratch the US$3 billion Mineraçao Onça Puma nickel laterite processing plant in Brazil for Vale and managing its subsequent operation, including the plant’s 1,900-person workforce, managing Inco’s (now Vale) Indonesian nickel laterite operations, which has an annual average output of 169 million pounds of nickel, and running Rio Tinto’s Palabora copper smelter and refinery in South Africa, which produces around 120,000 tonnes of copper metal per year. His most recent role involved managing Alcoa’s Kwinana aluminum refinery in Western Australia including its 950-person workforce. This refinery, which produces over $1 billion of specialty alumina products per year, is located within the Perth metropolitan area and, thus, is proximal to numerous residual communities. That the Kwinana operation achieved some of it’s best safety and environmental performance during his time at this plant is a testament to Mr. Maclean’s strong personal commitment to the environment, local community engagement, and workforce safety. He builds Australia’s Mines’ management and technical capacity in this crucial stage of development for the Company, as it moves its advanced Sconi Cobalt-Nickel-Scandium Project in Queensland through its current Bankable Feasibility Study and towards a final investment decision. With the Company anticipating reporting the results from its resource extension drilling program1 at its Flemington Cobalt-Scandium-Nickel Project in New South Wales within the coming fortnight, and the release of an updated Mineral Resource estimate2 for the Flemington Project in August, Mr. Maclean will also play a vital role in the preparation of the Company’s Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) for this project, which is scheduled to start in October 2017.

Research Interest

 mining