Management
Jonathan M. Hamer BA, LLB
Chairman
Jonathan Hamer is a former partner of King & Wood Mallesons where he practised in the areas of corporate and finance law. Jonathan has been advising RLC since 1988 on a range of legal and commercial issues, including in its various joint venture agreements and capital raisings.
Jonathan was appointed Director on 9 May 2007.
Geoffrey H. Fethers B.Sc.(Hons), M AusIMM, M GSA
Managing Director
Geof Fethers manages the operations of RLC and is a founding Director. He is a geologist with over 25 years exploration experience. He was employed by De Beers Australia Exploration Limited (formerly Stockdale Prospecting Limited) from 1980 to 1985. He founded RLC in 1986.
Adrian C. Griffin B.Sc.(Hons), M AusIMM, M GSA
Independent Non-Executive Director
Mr Griffin has more than 40 years’ experience in the mining industry – ranging from project identification, through exploration, development, financing, and oversight of integrated mining and processing facilities. He has extensive experience in iron ore, from exploration through to mine design, grade control and production in Australia and South Africa and was founder and managing director of Lithium Australia, where he focused on the downstream production of lithium-ion battery components, and recycling of battery/e-waste to recover the energy metals they contain. Mr Griffin was a founding director of Northern Minerals (the first heavy-rare-earths producer outside China) is Chairman of lithium explorer, Charger Metals NL also Chairman of Subcontinental Lithium NL.
Mr Griffin was a director of Reedy Lagoon from 9 May 2007 until resigning on 27 November 2009 to act as technical director of an iron-ore developer in South Africa. He re-joined RLC as a director on 30 June 2014.
Jonathan M. Hamer BA, LLB
Chairman
Jonathan Hamer, aged 62, is a former partner of King & Wood Mallesons where he practised in the areas of corporate and finance law. Jonathan has been advising RLC since 1988 on a range of legal and commercial issues, including in its various joint venture agreements and capital raisings.
Jonathan was appointed Director on 9 May 2007.
Geoffrey H. Fethers B.Sc.(Hons), M AusIMM, M GSA
Managing Director
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Geof Fethers, aged 60, manages the operations of RLC and is a founding Director. He is a geologist with over 25 years exploration experience. He was employed by De Beers Australia Exploration Limited (formerly Stockdale Prospecting Limited) from 1980 to 1985. He founded RLC in 1986. He co-founded, with Hugh Rutter, Flagstaff GeoConsultants Pty Ltd in 1996 and DiamondCo Limited in 2007.
Adrian C. Griffin B.Sc.(Hons), M AusIMM, M GSA
Independent Non-Executive Director
Adrian Griffin, aged 64, has accumulated extensive experience in the resource sector over the past 35 years. During that time he has held directorships in a number of private and listed resource companies and overseen the operation of large, integrated mining and processing facilities, including the Bulong nickel-cobalt operation in the late 1990s to his current position as Managing Director of Lithium Australia NL, a company developing lithium extraction and recovery technologies. Mr Griffin was a director of Reedy Lagoon from 9 May 2007 until resigning on 27 November 2009 to act as technical director of Ferrum Crescent, an iron-ore developer in South Africa. He re-joined RLC as a director on 30 June 2014.
Mr Griffin was also a founding director of Northern Uranium and Parkway Minerals (developer of the KMax process to recover potassium and other metals from glauconite). Recently, he was instrumental in identifying the global opportunity to establish lithium micas as a source feed for the lithium chemical industry.