2 - 3 September 2010

Sheraton Perth Hotel, WA

Alexander Burns
Managing Director
Sphere Investments Ltd

Mr Burns has over 20 years of experience in the management of private and publicly listed companies in the industrial and resource sectors in Australia, Malaysia, Japan, Russia and West Africa (Mauritania and Mali). Since November 1998, Mr Burns has been Managing Director of Sphere. He was instrumental in taking the Company into the iron ore sector in a joint venture agreement with SNIM in 2001 for the development of the Guelb el Aouj iron ore pellet project in Mauritania, West Africa. Mr Burns also played a key role in expanding Sphere’s portfolio of resource projects in West Africa, including gold and base metals exploration projects in Mauritania which led to the spin-off of Shield Mining Limited, and two onshore oil and gas licences in neighbouring Mali, which underpinned the spin-off of Qatar based Sphere Petroleum QSC. Mr Burns is a director of Shield Mining Limited.