Management
Morning Star Gold is operated and managed on a daily basis between its executive offices and the Morning Star mine site in Woods Point, Victoria.
An Operating Committee of 4 persons liaises on the day-to-day operation of MCO. The committee comprises three Directors - Nick Garling, Peter Hepburn-Brown & Peter Jackson who has ~30 years experience in the Eastern Victorian goldfields - and a senior technical member representative Greg Curnow who is MCO's Chief Geologist. Peter HB and Greg are both ex-WMC operatives among other companies.
Site management consisting of consulting engineers and high experienced mining operatives, report to Peter Hepburn-Brown daily.
Chairman, Managing Director – Nicholas Garling
Nicholas Garling has worked for Investment Banks for the past 21 years in areas concerning equity capital raising, asset disposal, structured derivatives and listed equity markets trading. After studying for a Diploma of Law at Sydney Uni and working in a Sydney legal practice for 4 years, he moved into the financial markets field. He worked for the past 10 years in Tokyo, Japan & Hong Kong, with UBS Warburg & Lehman Brothers where he was Managing Director of Equity Markets Group for UBS and before that, Managing Director of Lehman’s Asia-Pacific Equity business. Mr. Garling is a major shareholder in Morning Star Gold and works full-time between their Sydney and Eastern Victorian offices. Ultimately, he is Sydney based with wife Sam and their 8 kids. He is an avid rugby player and supporter of Old Ignatians RFC, a cricketer of no repute and has very busy Saturday mornings running a taxi service for kids…
Director of Geology – Dr. Peter Jackson BSc (Geology), PhD, MAIG
Dr. Jackson is a Geologist who lectured for many years in Geology at Victoria’s renowned La Trobe University. He has over 21 years practical experience in the Eastern Victorian Goldfields and has conducted 100’s of field studies on old mining operations in the Woods Point area including economic geological assessments. He is intimately acquainted with all of the key mines & dyke structures within Morning Star’s tenement package. Dr Jackson is based between Melbourne & Woods Point. In a past life, Peter spent some frigid years in Antarctica with the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology and as a result believes the winters in Alpine Victoria are quite mild…He is married to Fran with 2 daughters and when he’s not crawling through old dykes around Woods Point, is an avid reader and leader of old mine tours.
Chief Geologist - Greg Curnow BSc (Geology), MAusIMM
Morning Star appointed Greg Curnow as its Chief Mine Geologist in 2009. Greg has over 20 years of experience in many parts of the world in mine geology. He has worked in the field and in underground gold production situations in Australia also. Greg spent several years with Western Mining and is intimately experienced in narrow vein gold mining situations. Greg is well known to some of MCO's Directors having worked on other projects with them in the past. Most recently Greg was a senior consultant with the respected Geos Mining - Mineral Consultants. He also has advanced skills in micro-computing, is intimately familiar with MCO's geological modelling (SURPAC) software and has plenty of experience in water resources and interface with government.
Technical Director - Peter Hepburn-Brown BSc (Eng), Dip Human Resources, MAusIMM
Peter's role is to direct all mine planning and production. Peter oversees and directs all operational aspects of getting the Morning Star mine and surrounding potential ore sources into production. Peter holds a Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering and a Graduate Diploma in Human Resources. He holds First Class Mining Certificates in Western Australia, Victoria and Queensland and has over 25 years of diversified mining industry experience from greenfields right through to production. Peter has worked for large-scale gold producers including WMC, Harmony, Niugini Mining, Great Central Mines and St Barbara on a plethora of very successful gold projects such as Bronzewing, Jundee and Leonora. We are delighted to have someone of Peter’s experience and reputation on the company's board with us to take the Woods Point Gold Project to the production stage and beyond.
