GreenRoc appoints Dr Stefan Bernstein as CEO

GreenRoc Mining plc has appointed Dr Stefan Bernstein as chief executive officer and director, with effect from 1 July 2022. 

Dr Bernstein is a Danish geologist with more than 30 years’ experience in corporate and governmental advisory roles in Greenland’s mining sector.

He most recently worked for GEUS, the Danish and Greenlandic Geological Survey, responsible for supporting the sustainable exploitation of raw materials in Greenland, where since 2016 he was the head of the Mapping and Mineral Resources Department. 

Dr Bernstein was previously exploration director, and latterly CEO, of Avannaa Resources Ltd, a Greenland-focused mineral exploration company which he founded in 2007.

The company has executed more than 25 exploration programmes, discovering the Karrat REE deposit and the Disko Bay diamond province in West Greenland and securing two joint venture agreements with Anglo American and Boliden.

Dr Bernstein was earlier been involved in other deposit discoveries in Greenland, including the Platinova palladium-gold Reef in the Skaergaard Intrusion, stratabound PGE mineralisation at the Kap Edvard Holm Complex, and the Citronen Fjord Pb-Zn deposit.

As CEO of GreenRoc, he will advance the company’s Amitsoq graphite project in southern Greenland and the Thule Black Sands ilmenite project in north-west Greenland.

He holds no ordinary shares in GreenRoc.

Dr Bernstein current directorships / partnerships are on the advisory board of James Furman Kemp Memorial Fund, Dept. Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, USA; and Bernstein Geoconsult CVR 37766291 (DK).

Following this appointment, Lars Brünner, who had assumed the role of interim CEO, will return to his role as a non-executive director of the company with effect from 1 July 2022.