A former Executive General Manager of Barrick Gold’s Lumwana Copper Mine in Zambia, Mr Ash is an experienced American Mining Engineer and modernizing leader, with a proven track record of building and leading teams capable of optimizing and enhancing the operating efficiency, profitability and sustainability of mining operations in complex and challenging environments.
During his tenure at Lumwana Mr. Ash Delivered over $100M in sustainable free cash flow improvements, achieved 50% improvement in safety performance, executed a training and development program achieving 96% local workforce, and progressed expansion plans that doubled the value of mine.
BEng Mining Engineering from University of Missouri Rolla; MA in Strategic Leadership, London Business School.
A former COO of Barrick Gold Corporation from 2015-2018, Mr. Williams is a global executive with an established track-record of value creation, pioneering and transformational leadership within the Mining Industry and other demanding assignments. Amongst other notable achievements, this helped Barrick deliver an 80% improvement in the company’s operating profit over his three years, and the total overhaul of the Company’s relationship with the Tanzanian Government following a breakdown of relations between a Barrick subsidiary and that government.
Formerly, the CEO of an African and Central Asian focused exploration business, and Non-Executive Director of Gem Diamonds PLC, he was also the Commanding Officer of the British Special Forces Regiment – the SAS. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Trevali Mining Corporation, Chair of Trevali’s HSEC Committee and an advisor to mining companies facing complex operational, political or ESG challenges.
BSc Economics, University College London; MA Security Studies, Kings College London; MBA Cranfield University.
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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, welcome to Bunker Hill's live summit today hosted by 6. Today I'm joined by Sam Ash, CEO of Bunker Hill, Richard Williams, their Executive Chairman, David Weins, their CFO, and Kyle Erdman, Head of Geology. The team's gonna walk us through their presentation today, and after we'll be accepting some questions. You can submit your questions using the Q&A panel found on the right-hand side of your screen at any time during today's presentation. Speaker 1: And as always, this summit is being recorded. It'll be available to watch afterwards on six.com. Speaker 2: Without further ado, Sam, I'm gonna hand things over to you to get us started. Yeah, thank you very much. And thanks for everybody for joining us today. And it's really a pleasure to be going through and reviewing and giving some more color to the updated resource that we have just press released yesterday. Speaker 2: Before we dive into some of the details about the resource, I just wanna take a moment to reflect and remind everybody Speaker 2: about Bunker Hill, who we are as a company Speaker 2: and the path that we're on. Speaker 2: We are all about creating exceptional value through regeneration. Speaker 2: You know, our foundation for that is obviously the Bunker Hill asset, which is our cornerstone asset and the leadership team that we bring to the challenge. Speaker 2: We have a tremendous group of supportive shareholders, Speaker 2: and we're developing Speaker 2: enduring Speaker 2: partnerships Speaker 2: with regulatory agencies, local communities, Speaker 2: such as the EPA, who we're working very closely with. And we're developing a pipeline of similar regeneration projects, Speaker 2: which will expand across what we believe will be the full Western United States. You can...
