Mr Burns was Managing Director of Sphere Minerals Limited from 1998 – 2010. During this period, the company acquired and evaluated iron ore properties in Mauritania, West Africa. Sphere was subsequently taken over by Xstrata Plc in November 2010 for $514 million. Mr Burns was also a non-executive Chairman of Shield Mining Limited (Shield), which was spun out of Sphere in 2006. Shield was a gold and base metals exploration company active in Mauritania and was taken over by Gryphon Minerals Limited in mid-2010.

Mr Hills was appointed to the board having initially joined the Group as CFO. He has extensive experience in senior finance roles with ASX and TSX listed mining companies with gold, nickel and copper producing assets. Before joining Altamin he was involved with the financing, commissioning and operations of the Kipoi Copper Project in the DRC, and before that the TSX listing of Mirabela Nickel Limited and subsequent initial syndicated project financing for the Santa Rita nickel mine in Brazil. He was CFO of Gallery Gold Limited, which developed the Mupane Gold project in Botswana, and prior to that CFO of a global laboratory services group before its sale to SGS Group.

Mr Cardaci was previously a partner in Gilbert & Tobin’s Corporate Advisory Group. Mr Cardaci has advised on a range of corporate and commercial matters including public and private equity fund raisings and public and private mergers, acquisitions and divestment. Mr Cardaci also regularly advises on issues relating to Corporations Act and Australian Securities Exchange Listing Rules. He has cross-border experience, having advised on numerous overseas transactions including capital raisings, takeovers, schemes of arrangements and the structuring of acquisitions and joint ventures in numerous countries