Christopher Cairns – Executive Chair and Managing Director
Christopher Cairns completed a First Class Honours degree in Economic Geology from the University of Canberra in 1992. Mr Cairns has extensive exploration and mine development experience having worked for BHP Minerals in Queensland and the Philippines, Aurora Gold in Borneo, LionOre in WA and Sino Gold in China.
Mr Cairns is best known as the former Managing Director of Integra Mining Limited having taken Integra from successful WA gold explorer to producer. In January 2013, Integra was taken over by Silver Lake Resources Limited for $426 million.
Mr Cairns is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists, a Member of JORC, is the Chair of the Australian Prospectors and Miner’s Hall of Fame, is Non-Executive Chair of E79 Gold Mines (ASX:E79) and is Executive Chair and Managing Director of Stavely Minerals Limited (ASX:SVY).