Kavango Resources plc has appointed Brett Grist as chief operating officer designate.
Mr Grist, currently exploration manager of Cornwall Resources Ltd, will join Kavango on 7 February 2022 and the company board as an executive director.
He has worked in geological and management roles as CEO, director, and exploration manager, taking projects from early exploration through resource definition and into development.
In Africa, Mr Grist worked for Reunion Mining plc and CASA Mining Ltd and covered projects in Mali, Ghana, DRC and Mozambique.
In DRC, as CEO of CASA, he led an exploration programme covering airborne geophysics, soil sampling and diamond drilling, which delivered an initial resource for the Misisi gold deposit.
Most recently he led definition of a substantial high-grade metal resource for Strategic Minerals plc’s subsidiary, Cornwall Resources, for the Redmoor tin-tungsten-copper project.
Mr Grist is a geologist from the Royal School of Mines, London with more than 22 years of exploration and mining experience in base metals and gold across Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Australia.
He is a Chartered Professional member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
Mr Grist is also co-chairman of the Critical Minerals Association’s UK mining working group.
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Kavango has awarded Mr Grist two grants of employee share options which align his incentive package with existing executive directors.
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