Senior Management
Mark Hine - Chief Operating Officer
Mr Hine is a Mining Engineer with over 30 years experience in the Australian and Overseas mining industry. Mr Hine was previously Chief Executive Officer at Golden West Resources. Prior to his time with Golden West Resources he held a number of senior management roles with Macmahon Contractors, Orion Resources, Golden Shamrock Mines, Pasminco and Consolidated Rutile which saw him actively involved in the development of Greenfield projects, negotiation of offtake agreements, business improvement and expansion of existing operations. Mr Hine has a Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) from the Western Australia School of Mines, a First Class Mine Managers Certificate of Competency in WA, Qld & NSW. Mr Hine is also a member of AUSIMM & AIME and is a member of the AICD.
Jeff Ion - Development Manager
With a Bachelor of Science Honours degree and a Master of Science, both from the University of Western Australia, Jeff has worked in the Australian mining and exploration industry continuously for 27 years. Jeff has wide experience in precious and base metal exploration and development across Australia and in Malaysia, Zimbabwe and Vanuatu. Prior to joining Crescent in 2009, Jeff had worked with a number of junior to mid tier companies both public and private as Exploration Manager, Chief Development Geologist, Group Geologist and Resource Analyst. Jeff’s participation in successful exploration groups saw him awarded the 1997 AMEC Prospector of the Year. Jeff holds membership of The Australian Institute of Geoscientists, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, The Geological Society of Australia and The Society of Economic Geologists.
Mike Walsh - Mine Manager
Michael Walsh graduated as a mining engineer in 1976. He worked in underground barite and open-cut bentonite mines in Iran before moving to the USA. He spent the next five years in California, first as a partner in a solar heating company, then as a self-employed automotive mechanic before joining a small company in Plumas National Forest, in the Sierra Nevada re-opening a gold mine that had been abandoned for 55 years.
Upon returning to Australia he worked with homeless street-kids, then spent two years of voluntary work on a mission hospital in Burkina Faso, West Africa, looking after construction and maintenance.
He returned to Australia, and rejoined the mining industry, at Telfer, with Newmont Australia Ltd (now Newcrest). He spent 15 years with Newmont/Newcrest in many diverse roles, both open pit and underground, ranging from junior engineer to Project Manager to Operations Manager. Following that he worked for Ivanhoe Mines Mongolia on the Oyu Tolgoi project in the Gobi Desert.
Since then he has worked in surface and underground mines as Mining Manager, General Manager or Chief Mining Engineer, at Southern Cross, Marvel Loch, Wodgina (tantalum), Daveyhurst and Wiluna, before joining Crescent Gold.
In his spare time he has assisted the Dept of Mines by marking examination papers for mine managers, spent time in China evaluating tailings dams, and spent a couple of months as a volunteer worker, in a refugee camp in Ethiopia.
He is keenly interested in third world development, justice, ethical management, and fairness to mine workers.
