Board of Directors
Samantha Tough, Chairperson
Ms Samantha Tough has a unique mix of leadership, commercial and legal skills and experience. Samantha is currently Chairman Southern Cross Goldfields Ltd; Chairman Structerre Pty Ltd (largest engineering services company in Western Australia), and a member of Curtin University of Technology's Investment Committee.
Samantha has senior executive management experience in oil and gas, including General Manager North West Shelf for Woodside Energy Ltd and Director of Strategy for Hardman Resources Ltd. She has worked in the venture capital industry for a number of years and is currently involved in sport, in both a coaching and leadership capacity. Samantha has a law degree from University of Western Australia and is entitled to fellow status from the AICD.
Antony Truelove, Managing Director
Mr Tony Truelove is a Geologist with over 25 years experience in the mining and exploration industries. Prior to joining Southern Cross Goldfields he held executive positions with Indo Gold Ltd (Exploration Manager), Delta Gold Ltd (Exploration Manager Eastern Australia and Regional Exploration Manager Eastern Goldfields), Newcrest Mining Ltd (Manager Geology Tuckabianna Gold Mine and Regional Exploration Manager Eastern Goldfields) and Shell/Billiton (Regional Geologist NT and NW Qld, Project Geologist North Queensland and Eastern Goldfields), as well as consulting for several years. His experience includes exploration in Australia, India, Indonesia and Zimbabwe and he has been involved with the discovery of over 10M ounces of gold as well as exploration for nickel, PGE, base metal, molybdenum and tin-tungsten mineralisation.
Tony also has significant operational experience and has been involved with numerous due diligence and feasibility studies and has followed several discoveries through to successful mining. He graduated with First Class Honours from the University of Adelaide in 1981 and is currently a member of AusIMM, AIG, SEG and SGA.
Vernon Strange, Director
Mr Vernon Strange is a businessman and the owner of Southern Cross Drilling Services, a drilling contracting company. He has been actively involved in the mineral business, including mining, exploration and prospecting, for over 20 years.
Based in Southern Cross, Vernon has extensive experience and knowledge of the Yilgarn gold?elds and this experience, coupled with his many local contacts among Southern Cross miners, prospectors and farmers, provides the Company with an extensive network of contacts in the area. He was a former President of the Yilgarn Prospectors Association and Delegate for the Australian Prospectors and Leaseholders Association.
Ian Buchhorn, Director
Mr Ian Buchhorn is a Minerals Economist and Geologist with 33 years experience. Prior to listing Heron Resources Ltd in 1996 as founding Managing Director, Ian worked with Anglo American Corporation in southern Africa, and Comalco, Shell/Billiton and Elders Resources in Australia, as well as setting up and managing Australia's first specialist mining grade control consultancy.
Ian has worked on feasibility studies, bauxite and industrial mineral mining and exploration, gold and base metal project generation, and corporate evaluations. For the last 21 years Ian has acquired and developed mining projects throughout the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia, and operated as a Registered Mine Manager.