– UK, London – ECR Minerals plc (LON: ECR), the exploration and development company focused on gold in Australia, announced the appointment of Mike Parker to its board as Senior Independent Non-Executive Director, with immediate effect.
About Mike Parker
Mike Parker has been a consultant geologist to ECR since 2024. He has extensive experience in exploration and project development, overseeing projects from discovery through construction to production. He had a 22-year tenure at First Quantum Minerals, where he held progressively senior country manager positions, and was instrumental in two major copper discoveries: the Lonshi and Frontier mines. He was the country manager in the Democratic Republic of Congo for FQM, overseeing up to 3,000 staff with two operating copper mines and a mine construction project. Between 2011 and 2017, he served as country manager for FQM in Peru, responsible for designing and implementing FQM’s corporate strategy in Latin America, including Argentina and Chile. He oversaw community relations programs and sustainability processes, ensuring that projects complemented community development in remote areas, including preparations for resettlement programs. He was responsible for government relations and communications throughout Latin America.
He is a Director of Aftermath Silver Ltd, a pure-silver exploration play in Chile and Peru, and listed in Canada, and Technical Director of Solis Minerals Limited, a critical minerals explorer, focused on South America, with a dual listing in Canada and Australia. At Aftermath Silver, his focus is on the Berenguela deposit with battery metal potential, and he leads Solis Minerals’ copper exploration programmes.
Mike Parker is a fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (FAusIMM) and a member of the Institute of Mining Engineers of Peru (IIMP) and holds a BSc Mining Geology (Honours), University of Leicester.
About ECR Minerals
ECR Minerals is a mineral exploration and development company. ECR’s wholly owned Australian subsidiary, ECR Minerals (Australia) Pty Ltd, has 100% ownership of the Bailieston and Creswick gold projects in central Victoria, Australia, and has six licence applications outstanding, which include one licence application lodged in eastern Victoria (the Tambo gold project).
ECR also owns 100% of an Australian subsidiary, ECR Minerals (Queensland) Pty Ltd, which has three approved exploration permits covering 946 km2 over a relatively unexplored area in the Lolworth Range, Queensland, Australia. The Company has also submitted a license application at Kondaparinga, which is approximately 120km2 in area and located within the Hodgkinson Gold Province, 80km NW of Mareeba, North Queensland.
Following the sale of the Avoca, Moormbool, and Timor gold projects in Victoria, Australia a to Fosterville South Exploration Ltd (TSX-V: FSX) and the subsequent spin-out of the Avoca and Timor projects to Leviathan Gold Ltd (TSX-V: LVX), MGA has the right to receive up to A$2 million in payments subject to future resource estimation or production from projects sold to Fosterville South Exploration Limited.
ECR Australia also has approximately A$75 million of unutilised tax losses incurred during previous operations.
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