RE: This mornings Tweet,19 Oct 2022 14:08
Robert Andrew McCrae, Executive Director (born March 1973, aged: 47)
Robert McCrae has over 25 years’ experience in the mining and exploration industry in Africa. Mr McCrae
qualified with a BCom Economics and Financing from the University of Witwatersrand. He has been involved in
the exploration, development and financing of projects in over 15 African countries across a broad range of
commodities including precious metals, gemstones, base metal, bulk commodities and industrial minerals. He has
managed both the development of these projects for both private and listed companies and has acted in roles of
project owner as well as project/construction contractor. Mr MCrae was the founding shareholder of Mining
Project Development ltd, which owned the Zanaga Iron Ore Project in the Republic of Congo prior to its
acquisition by Glencore.
Mr McCrae has held senior executive management positions with a number of Australian Securities Exchange
listed mining and exploration companies, including CEO of Minbos Resources, which had several high-grade
phosphate projects in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo and COO of Black Mountain Resources
which operated a high grade vermiculite mine and phosphate exploration project located in Uganda. He was also
a founder of Luiri Gold Limited, which explored and developed gold projects in Zambia and where he was also
involved on the listing onto the Toronto Stock Exchange. Between 1994 and 2006, Mr McCrae was Director,
Business Development of MDM Engineering (Pty) ltd, an African focused natural resource contracting and
process engineering companies in Africa, which was responsible for the construction of processing plants for a
number of major gold and copper operations throughout Africa.