Metallicarum International Alliance Members:

Metallicarum International (“MIL”) people provide consulting advisory services and research focusing on the commercial aspects relative to mining and base and precious metal marketing, transportation and distribution, feasibility market studies, marketing audits, strategies, policy and price risk management. Commercial expertise is allied to a number of internationally recognized research groups in copper, lead, zinc and precious metals. Key such groups are Bloomsbury minerals Economics Ltd and CHR Metals Ltd.
MIL people bring extensive experience in all commercial phases of new mining project development – from pre-feasibility studies, market and price analyses and projections, long-term market strategy formulation, project financing, sales and logistics contract negotiations, commercial organization studies and recruitment.

Mrs. Claire Hassall holds a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in economics and specialized in monetary economics for the masters qualification and joined Brook Hunt & Associates, non-ferrous metals consultants, to undertake macro-economic research and forecasting. She assumed responsibility for the company's market analysis services for lead and zinc, and was a key figure in developing its economic database and scenarios, forecasting systems and its market analysis for all major LME traded metals. Claire left Brook Hunt to establish CHR Metals Ltd (www.chrmetals.com) in May 2000, with former colleague, Huw Roberts. CHR is a member of MIL. Claire has many years of experience in analyzing and writing about the markets for metals and concentrates, in particular for lead and zinc, as well as the impact of economic developments on demand for metals. She has been a major contributor to market reports to support feasibility studies and bank financing documents for new projects, as well as writing regular commentary on zinc metal and concentrate markets.
Mr. Huw Roberts, with a B.A in economics and economic history, has over 20 years experience analyzing the non-ferrous and precious metals industries. Huw began his career with Cominco in its LME brokerage division in London and then worked as an analyst involved in that company's European mining and exploration activities. He joined Metals & Minerals Research Services (MMRS) where he was a director and co-editor of the publication “Metals Analysis and Outlook” and then moved to Brook Hunt & Associates and was appointed Managing Director in 1996. In over 10 years at the consultancy, Huw worked on a wide variety of projects as well as preparing regular monthly metal market forecasts and analysis. He had a key role in developing information sources within the former Soviet Union, and subsequently developed the quarterly report, "FSU Aluminium. Together with Claire Hassall, he established CHR Metals focusing mainly on the lead and zinc markets and publishing regular market commentaries via its web site and offers clients in-depth analysis of the world's mining and metal industries. CHR is a member of MIL.

Mr Scott Roos, President of Caliper Metals Corp is based in Toronto and is an accomplished executive with about 25 years experience in the strategic development, marketing, sales, and trading of base metals and concentrates, smelter and refinery intermediates, metallurgical by-products, base and precious metal scrap, minor metals, precious and pgm metals. He maintains a broad-based expertise in all business facets from analysis of potential mine developments to specific market terms, pricing, and contractual structures. Scott is highly respected in the industry with an extensive network of contacts globally. Before starting his consulting career and allying with NSA, he was previously Vice President, Commercial - Falconbridge Copper following various other senior positions with that company and with Noranda Sales Corp.,

JPC consulting is network of independent ex-CEOs, coming mostly from the manufacturing industry, with experience in strategy, organisation, turnaround, international development, change management.

Mr. Neil Seldon, Chairman of MIL is also Chairman, Bloomsbury Minerals Economics Ltd and President of Neil S. Seldon & Associates Ltd. (NSA) launched in mid 1990 in Vancouver, Canada. NSA acts as consultants and advisors in the marketing of non-ferrous concentrates to clients around the world. Services include negotiation of sales contracts for copper, zinc and lead concentrates and other minerals and metals, development of sales and marketing strategies, hedging of metal prices on terminal markets, and development of polices and procedures for marketing, raw materials procurement, shipping, sales contracts and pricing, input into due diligence on marketing for mining company projects worldwide and co-operation with engineering groups and financial institutions for marketing input. NSA has provided advice and services to around fifty companies and organisations over the last seventeen years.
Neil Seldon is a graduate of the Royal School of Mines in London and following an initial career with a metal merchant in London including time with their ring-dealing group on the London Metal Exchange before moving to Canada. His career included Manager Marketing with Zapata Granby Corporation and Vice-President Marketing with Westmin Resources Ltd. He has extensive international experience in many aspects of marketing and instituted the formation of MIL.

Mr. Marcos Warner, based in Santiago, Chile, is a director of Selmar International Services Ltda (“Selmar”) has a B.Sc. in Economics and a Commercial Engineering degree from the University of Chile and is fluent in Spanish and English. Selmar is a member of MIL. Marcos has been an independent consultant since 1999, following 20 years of senior commercial management in sales, marketing and logistics with multinational mining companies operating in South America.
Marcos was General Manager of the Chilean Mining Council in 1998-99 and over 1994 and 1998, he was Vice President Marketing of Barrick Chile Ltda, responsible, internationally and locally, for overall marketing of the company’s copper and zinc concentrates, including by-products and other metals. Previous roles include marketing and sales positions with St. Joe Minerals, Bond Gold Corporation and Lac Minerals Ltd. Marcos played a key role in Lac Minerals' strategic investments in Chile in the early 90´s and was responsible for international sales and marketing for Minera El Indio’s complex copper-gold concentrates and Minera El Toqui’s zinc concentrates. Marcos also directed Lac’s 20% worldwide market position in the production and sale of arsenic trioxide, a by-product used in the wood treatment industry.

Ted Arnold was Merrill Lynch Europe’s minerals economist for 23 years and (after Merrill closed down its commodities operations in the expensive aftermath of the Sumitomo affair) became the minerals strategist for the Hamburg Metals division of Prudential Bache for another five years. He retired to Cornwall in 2002. But then he left retirement in 2008 and returned to London as an independent minerals economist.

He does a weekly base metals report for Bloomsbury Minerals Economics as an outside contributor. He covers all the base metals and gold and silver.   

Wolfgang Treder, a member of MIL and based in Frankfurt Germany, currently advises on sourcing and marketing of base metals ores and concentrates. A specialist in introducing new mine productions (especially copper and zinc concentrates) to the market, he was marketing consultant for Compania Minera Antamina S.A., responsible for all market related activities, including preparation of the marketing feasibility study, development of the marketing strategy for the annual production of copper and zinc concentrates, as well as the negotiation of 'bankable' long term sales agreements.
Previously with the German metals company, Metallgesellschaft AG (MG), including being Chairman and CEO of Metal Concentrates International Inc in New York, Managing Director of MG Erz & Metallhandel GmbH and a Vice President of MG in Frankfurt. Responsibilities included managing raw material purchases for various MG smelters (lead, tin, and zinc) and for Norddeutsche Affinerie (copper concentrates, blister), the development and implementation of marketing strategies for the Ok Tedi, Cayeli and Kemco base metal mines in PNG, Turkey and Thailand, and managing MG's global trading position in alumina and copper, zinc, tin, and lead concentrates.