Joe Ranford is a mining engineer with 25 years’ senior management experience across both domestic and international mining companies. Joe has significant experience bringing mining operations into production within sensitive communities and considerable knowledge of the South Australian mining approval process and stakeholder landscape. Most recently, he held the role as Chief Operating Officer for Nordic Gold Inc., a Canadian based company which was the previous owner of the Laiva Gold Mine in Finland, where he re-established mining operations and brought the project back into production from care and maintenance. Prior to his role at Nordic Gold Inc, Joe was Operations Manager for Terramin Australia Limited where he managed all operational and technical aspects of the Angas Zinc mine and championed the evaluation and approval processes for the Bird in Hand Gold Project Joe is focused on bringing the deposits of the Great White Kaolin Project on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula project into production. Growing up in the region, Joe has genuine understanding and respect for the local community and wants to continue building partnerships based on creating shared value.