Mercator Gold PLC

Mercator Gold PLC

 
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Company Profile

Mercator Gold plc is a diversified mining investment company. Mercator’s activities principally focus on the advancement of selected projects and companies in which it holds significant interests, with a view to creating value for the benefit of Mercator and its shareholders.


Mercator is incorporated in England and Wales (Company No. 05079979) and its shares are listed on the Alternative Investment Market (" AIM" ) of the London Stock Exchange with the symbol MCR. Mercator’s American Depositary Receipts (" ADRs" ) are traded in the USA on an over the counter basis with the symbol MTDGY.


Mercator has interests in a range of jurisdictions, including Australia, Indonesia, Thailand and the USA.

Directors & Senior Management
Michael Bernard Silver

B.Sc.Eng. (Hons) - Executive Chairman 

Michael Silver was appointed as Chairman on 28 July 2008. He has broad and detailed experience in civil engineering including thirty years experience in the mining industry. He is a Member of the Institution of Engineers of Australia. Mr Silver founded Highlands Mining Ltd in 1968 bought in 1970 by Quest Mining and Exploration. He was involved in starting the Telfer gold mine for Newmont Australia and numerous other operations. Subsequently was involved in developing mines as a Principal and in conjunction with other Public Companies and was involved in numerous capital raisings.

His operational experience in the mining sector in Australia and Overseas encompasses most of the minerals mined in Australia. As a direct result of developing these projects Michael Silver gained broad ranging management experience and involvement in many businesses associated with the resource industries gaining corporate experience in the development and funding of six public companies, Quest Mining and Exploration Ltd, Southern Goldfields NL, Regent Mining Limited, Marino Ltd, Dome Resources Ltd and Harrington Group Ltd. His oil industry experience was acquired during his tenure as the Chairman of Drillsearch Oil Limited.

Public Company Board positions have been held in over ten publicly listed companies over the last thirty years. These have ranged from non-executive to executive roles and included chief executive and chair positions in both Australian and Canadian companies.
 
Patrick Aloysius Harford

BSc (Hons) - Managing Director

Patrick Harford was appointed Managing Director on 22 March 2004. He graduated with Honours in Geomorphology from Melbourne University in 1973.

He has experience in gold and diamond exploration and production in Australia and southern Africa.

His past roles have seen Patrick involved with:

  • Grants Patch Mining Limited (Managing Director) - a gold mine operator
    in Western Australia and the Northern Territory
  • Zapopan NL - (Managing Director) - locating and developing Mt Todd
    and Tanami mines, also in the Northern Territory; and
  • Auridiam Consolidated NL - successful construction of a 2 million tonne
    per annum diamond mine in Zimbabwe.
 
Michael John de Villiers

B Comm CPA (SA) - Finance Director

Michael de Villiers was appointed Finance Director on 22 March 2004. He qualified as a Certified Public Accountant(SA) with Ernst & Young in Cape Town.

Michael gained his experience as financial manager at mining and chemicals operations in Namibia, Botswana, Ghana and Bulgaria.

He was previously the Finance Director of Oxus Gold plc and Navan Mining plc.
 
Michael Elias

Non-Executive Director

Michael Elias was appointed a Non-Executive Director on 7 July 2004. He is a geologist with over 30 years of experience in the mining industry. He has worked with WMC (mainly in nickel projects, as Chief Geologist Resource Development, Nickel Division) and Geological Survey of Western Australia. He is currently a director of CSA Australia.
 
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