Altona Rare Earths plc has appointed Cédric Simonet as chief operating officer with immediate effect.
Mr Simonet became a non-executive director of the company in December 2020 before which he had been consultant geologist since July 2020.
He is a French national who graduated from Universite Blaise Pascal with a Masters in Geology in 1995, and from Universite de Nantes with a PhD in Geology in 2000.
For the past 25 years, Mr Simonet has been living and working as a geologist in Africa.
He served as chairman of Kenya Chamber of Mines from 2010 to 2011, and again from 2017 to 2019.
Mr Simonet holds the European Geologist title and is qualified to act as a competent person / qualifies person over a wide range of mineral projects.