Poseidon Nickel (ASX:POS) has strengthened its senior management team with three new appointments as it focuses on returning its Windarra, Lake Johnston and Black Swan nickel projects to production.
These appointments improve the company’s capability in people hire and recruitment, commercial contracts and operations.
Poseidon has appointed Vanessa Hughes as its manager people and culture, Robert Boston as its general manager corporate, commercial and legal and John Croall as its general manager for the Lake Johnston project.
“We are pleased to welcome these high class professionals to our team and look forward to them making outstanding contributions to our projects,” managing director David Singleton said.
“We have worked closely with Vanessa and Robert in the past and they have now become full time. John takes on the key responsibility for turning Lake Johnston into a fully operational asset.”
Appointments
John Croall has been appointed to the role of general manager Lake Johnston nickel operations bringing his experience as its resident manager between 2006 and 2007 to the role.
He is a mining engineer with over 30 years’ mining industry experience across a range of commodities including nickel and has a successful track record in managing both underground and surface mines, planning for and overseeing mining rate and processing plant expansions.
He has also led the applications process and receipt of regulatory approvals leading to construction and commissioning of processing plants on greenfield sites.
Most recently, Croall was chief operating officer for Global Advanced Metals (GAM) and previously held the role of general manager operations for Lynas Corporation.
Robert Boston joins the leadership team in the role of general manager corporate, commercial and legal after successfully serving the company on a consulting basis since 2012.
He has been a key contributor to a number significant commercial transactions and contracts during this period.
Boston has multi commodity experience across exploration, early stage resource development, infrastructure, joint ventures, M&A and corporate governance and has previously held business development, marketing and commercial roles for BHP Billiton (Nickel West) and Rio Tinto (Exploration).
Vanessa Hughes joins Poseidon as manager people and culture.
She has over 20 years senior organisational development and human resource management experience including roles most recently with Millennium Minerals (ASX:MOY) as Manager People and Culture and Integra Mining as Manager Human Resources.
Hughes has expertise across the full range of her field from strategic HR including business strategy, creating and harnessing the optimal organisational culture, employee engagement and retention, talent and leadership development and succession to more generalist HR including recruitment and selection and employee relations.
Nickel Projects
Poseidon Nickel is bringing its Windarra project back into production and will then move to restart Lake Johnston.
This will be achieved through a combination of existing cash, sales revenue from Windarra and potentially with some debt for working capital purposes.
These and the Black Swan project will give the company the second largest sulphide nickel processing capacity in Australia.
It recently upgraded Indicated Resources at its Lake Johnston project in Western Australia by 50% to 3.5 million tonnes grading 1.49%, or 52,000 tonnes of contained nickel.
Poseidon has $15.36 million in cash at hand and term deposits as at 31st December 2014.
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