John Carlile

Mr John Carlile is a geologist with over 35 years’ experience in major and junior resources companies with a proven track-record of discovery, project acquisitions, and growth of public companies. Mr Carlile led Newcrest’s presence in Indonesia and grass-roots discovery of Gosowong high-grade Epithermal gold-silver deposit. Previously as member of BHP-Utah’s World Metals Group, he was involved in evaluation of acquisition and exploration opportunities in a number of countries including Greece, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Morocco, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea and Japan. He has extensive experience in Indonesia, has a good command of the language and has co-authored several geological publications on mineralisation in the volcanic arcs of Indonesia. Mr Carlile is currently a Non-executive Director of Southern Arc Minerals Inc., a Director and Executive Vice President of Japan Gold Corp. and Principal of JEM Resources Limited.