Ardea Resources Ltd (ASX: ARL) Share Price and News

Mr Rodriguez will be contributing his Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS), project development and operations experience in delivering the optimum DFS for the Kalgoorlie Nickel Project Goongarrie Hub. Mr Rodriguez has background in project construction, mechanical completion, and site handover to operations. He has over 30 years experience in the design, construction, commissioning, operation, and management of hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical plants. Mr Rodriguez brings to the Company a wealth of metallurgical process and construction experience.

Mr Penkethman is a resources sector executive with 30 years of experience in the industry. His technical skills include project evaluation, exploration, discovery, resource development, feasibility study management, permitting, stake holder engagement and mine development across open pit and underground operations within Australia and overseas. Commodities experience includes battery minerals, base metals, gold and energy commodities over a range of geological settings. Mr Penkethman's technical expertise is complimented with a corporate focus including investor relations, capital raising, strategic partner processes, joint venture management, and project acquisition and divestment. Mr Penkethman has ASX, AIM and TSX equity markets experience.

Mr Longworth has over 35 years of experience across exploration, project evaluation/development, operations and corporate management. He previously held roles as Exploration Manager, COO and CEO/Managing Director with Australian listed companies, and Mining Consultant with Xtract Mining consultants. In his senior corporate roles, Mathew led multidisciplinary project evaluation and development teams. Mr Longworth has experience of the key Ardea exploration and development projects, being the Kalgoorlie Nickel Project (KNP). Mr Longworth joined Heron Resources in 2003 as Exploration Manager rising to Managing Director in 2007 to 2011. Mr Longworth applied his knowledge of the Eastern Goldfields geology to the KNP to collaborate with Vale Inco in their 2005 to 2009 KNP feasibility study. He is currently Chairman of the unlisted Company Greenfields Exploration Limited, Non-Executive Director at Asra Minerals Ltd and Non-Executive Chairman of unlisted Northam Resources Limited.

Mr Buchhorn was the founding Managing Director of Heron Resources Limited for a period of 11 years until early 2007 and returned to that role briefly prior to his resignation as an Executive Director in June 2017. Mr Buchhorn previously worked with a few international mining companies and has worked on nickel, bauxite and industrial mineral mining and exploration, gold and base metal project generation and corporate evaluations. For the last 30 years Mr Buchhorn has acquired and developed mining projects throughout the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australian and has operated as a Registered Mine Manager.

Ms Arnason has over 35 years of experience across the natural resources, energy and manufacturing sectors with companies including BHP Billiton, Carter Holt Harvey, Svenska Cellulosa AB and Wesfarmers. She has worked across commodities including copper, gold, iron ore, timber, coal, mineral sands and natural gas and gained expertise in governance, strategy, sustainability, risk, corporate affairs, stakeholder relations, transformations, divestments and integrations. Ms Arnason is a Co-founder and Director of Energy Access Services, which operates an independent Western Australian-focused digital trading platform for wholesale gas buyers and sellers and has a record of service in the not-for-profit sector.

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