BARWICK, Russell

Russell Barwick graduated in Mining Engineering from the Ballarat School of Mines in 1973. He has accumulated some 50 years of technical, operational, managerial and corporate experience in international mining companies covering various commodities. He has worked for Bougainville Copper Limited (CRA, now Rio Tinto), Pancontinental Mining Ltd (Jabiluka Uranium) and CSR Limited (coking coal).

He has spent 16 years with global Canadian based gold producer Placer Dome Inc. in key development, operational and corporate roles in numerous countries culminating in his appointment as Managing Director of Placer Niugini Ltd. He then served as Managing Director and CEO of Newcrest Mining Limited (2000 to 2001) where he achieved strong market support.

For the four years to the end of 2006, Mr Barwick was a Chief Executive of Wheaton River Minerals Ltd and its successor Goldcorp Inc., based in Vancouver, Canada, where in just four years he and the small executive management team grew the market capitalisation of Goldcorp from C$200M to $22Billion to become then the third largest gold company globally by market capitalisation.

His extensive geographic, corporate mining, development and acquisition experience ranges from: Latin America, North America, Europe, Africa and the Asia-Pacific. He is currently in non-executive roles including as Chairman of ASX-listed Red Metal Ltd, a director of ASX-listed Lithium Power International and Chairman of its unlisted associate Minera Salar Blanco S.A. (Chile), and is recently a former director of ASX listed Mount Gibson Iron Ltd and of ASX listed gold company Regis Resources Ltd.

He presently resides on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.