Our Board
Directors
Andrew Quinn BSc Mineral Exploitation (Mining)
- Appointed Non-Executive Chair of Alkane Resources on 5 August 2025.
He was head of Mining Investment Banking for Europe and Africa at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for 15 years prior to his retirement in 2011. From 2011 to 2018, he served as a non-executive director of London-listed FTSE 100 company Randgold Resources. Upon the merger with TSX and NYSE-listed Barrick Gold in 2019, he joined that board as non-executive director and served until May 2025.
Since 2016, Mr Quinn has also served as a non-executive director of the London Bullion Market Association, the international trade association that oversees and regulates the OTC market for precious metals.
Mr Quinn has almost 50 years of experience in the mining and financial industries, including positions at Anglo American, Greenbushes Tin, The Mining Journal, James Capel and HSBC Investment Banking. He holds an undergraduate degree in Mineral Exploitation (Mining Engineering) from Cardiff University, is a Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining, and is a registered Chartered Engineer.
Bradford Mills MSc (Geology and Mineral Economics)
- Appointed Non-Executive Director Alkane Resources on 5 August 2025.
He is the former Chair of Mandalay Resources, a role he held from April 2017 until the merger with Alkane. Prior to that, he served as the CEO of Mandalay from 2009 until 2016 and oversaw its transition to a producing gold company (2010).
Other past roles include CEO of Lonmin Plc (GBX: LMI) (2004–2009), the world’s number three platinum and platinum group metals producer, and president of BHP Billiton’s copper group. He was a director of Rambler Metals & Mining PLC, a Canadian base and precious metals mining company.
Mr Mills is also the founder and managing director of Plinian Capital, a private equity firm whose principal business is investment in natural resources projects and companies.
Mr. Mills is currently a director of Circum Minerals, a private potash development company in Ethiopia, and CNM, a private company in Zambia producing nickel, copper, cobalt and platinum group metals.
Frazer Bourchier MASc Eng
- Appointed Non-Executive Director Alkane Resources on 5 August 2025.
He is the former president, chief executive officer and director of Mandalay Resources, a role he held from April 2023 until the merger with Alkane. Mr Bourchier has extensive public company and inter-company board governance experience, and a Chartered Director Certification (C.Dir.) accredited by McMaster University, Canada.
Previous executive roles include president, CEO and director of Harte Gold Corp. (late 2020 to early 2022), COO of Detour Gold (2018-2019), COO at Nevsun Resources (2012-2017), and operational executive at Wheaton Precious Metals (formerly Silver Wheaton) for two years. For the first 16 years of his career, he worked at Placer Dome (subsequently Barrick Gold), where he held positions of increasing responsibility, concluding as mining manager and then general manager at the Porgera open pit gold mine in PNG.
Mr. Bourchier also served as a director of Treasury Metals Inc. (TSX:TML) from August 2020 to March 2024.
Ian Gandel LLB, BEc, FCPA, FAICD
- Appointed Director of Alkane Resources on 24 July 2006 and Chair 1 September 2017. Resigned as Chair 5 August 2025.
Mr Gandel is a Melbourne-based businessman with extensive experience in retail management and retail property. He has been an investor in the mining industry since 1994 and is currently a substantial holder in several publicly listed Australian companies. Through his private investment vehicles, he now holds and explores tenements in his own right in Western Australia and South Australia.
He has served as director of Alliance Resources Pty Ltd (from 2003 until the company was delisted in July 2022, including as non-executive chair from June 2016 to 2022) and Australian Strategic Materials Limited (ASX: ASM) (since 2014, including as non-executive chairman since 2017).
Mr Gandel is also a member of CPA Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).
Nic Earner BEng Chemical
- Appointed Director and Managing Director of Alkane Resources 1 September 2017.
He joined Alkane Resources Ltd as Chief Operations Officer in August 2013 and was appointed Managing Director on 1 September 2017. During Mr Earner’s time as Managing Director, the Dubbo Project has been de-merged into the separately listed Australian Strategic Materials Limited (ASX: ASM), Tomingley Gold Operations has had its mine life extension approved by the NSW government, the Boda-Kaiser Project has gone from discovery to scoping study, and Alkane has transformed into a mid-tier company through a merger with Mandalay Resources.
Prior to Alkane, Mr Earner had roles at Straits Resources Ltd, Rio Tinto Coal Australia’s Mount Thorley Warkworth coal mine, and BHP/WMC Olympic Dam copper-uranium-gold operations.
Mr Earner served as a director of Australian Strategic Materials Limited (ASX: ASM) from September 2017 to March 2025 and Genesis Minerals Limited (ASX: GMD) from October 2019 to November 2021.
Joint Company Secretaries
Julia Beckett
Julia is a corporate governance professional with 20 years of experience in public company management specialisation in mining and exploration. She has vast expertise across ASX listing rules and ASIC compliance, including implementation and administration of corporate governance, initial public offerings and secondary raisings and shareholder relations.
Julia holds a Certificate in Governance Practice and Administration and is an Affiliated Member of the Governance Institute of Australia.
Dennis Wilkins B.Bus, ACIS, AICD
Since 1994 Mr Wilkins has been a director of, and involved in the executive management of, several publicly listed resource companies with operations in Australia, PNG, Scandinavia and Africa. From 1995 to 2001 he was the Finance Director of Lynas Corporation Ltd during the period when the Mt Weld Rare Earths project was acquired by the group. He was also founding director and advisor to Atlas Iron Limited at the time of Atlas’ initial public offering in 2006.
Since July 2001 Mr Wilkins has been running DWCorporate Pty Ltd where he advises on the formation of,
and capital raising for, emerging companies in the Australian resources sector.