Dr. Hanuma Prasad Modali, M.Sc., Ph.D., MAusIMM
Managing Director

M. Hanuma Prasad has extensive experience in Exploration and Mining industry in India and overseas.  In his long career, spanning over 27 years, Hanuma has worked in various capacities in Exploration and Corporate Management. As an Exploration Manager, he has led several greenfield and brown field exploration projects for gold, base metals, nickel-PGE, mineral sands and iron ore.  He has held key management positions, including Chief Executive Officer, in which he is involved in fundraising and  corporate management.

Hanuma started his career with Geological Survey of India in 1994 where he carried out geological mapping and exploration for gold. His work in Central India has helped in bringing out new regional geological concepts. Hanuma joined Australian Indian Resources Group (AIR) in the year 2001 and continued to work with the Group for the last 20 years. As an Exploration Manager, he has explored Archaean and Proterozoic terrains of central India for gold, base metals, Ni-Cu-PGE and made significant discoveries.   He was actively involved in the exploration research on generating new gold and Ni-PGE targets in India. During this period he has also built exploration teams and explored various parts of Africa for other mineral resource companies which have consultancy arrangements with AIR Group.

Since 2008 Hanuma was closely associated with the Business Development team of the AIR Group, during which he carried out due diligence of several precious commodity projects in India, Africa and South America. He has been associated with fund raising into AIR and Geomysore Services (India) Pvt Ltd (GMSI). Hanuma has co-managed NI 43-101 compliant feasibility study on Jonnagiri Gold Project along with a team of international and Indian experts.  He is currently part of the senior management of GMSI playing a key role in the development of Jonnagiri gold mining project.

Hanuma has worked widely in Africa, SE Asia, South America  and CIS countries as a part of due diligence team to advice various business houses in acquiring mineral projects in these countries. He has been instrumental in setting up gold and other mineral exploration and mining companies in Sudan, Ivory Coast, Togo, Zambia, Malawi and Kyrgyzstan.

He is on the board of many mineral resource companies, including AIM – listed LionsGold Limited which has got interests in mineral prospects in India.  He is a member of Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusImm). Hanuma has Doctorate in Geology and published number of papers in peer reviewed journals. He is a prolific speaker in national and International conferences.

Mr. Andrew Mark Weeks is a Geologist with over 30 years of experience in the mining industry.  He has worked in senior production and resource management roles with Acacia Resources, WMC and BHP as well as 10 years as a Principal Consultant for Golder Associates.  He has had a privileged career working on and visiting tens of minerals resource projects and mines on every continent (except Antarctica) and has worked in gold, nickel, silver, diamond, uranium, copper, tungsten, PGE and iron ore projects.  As a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (FAusIMM), he has sufficient experience to qualify as a Competent Person for various metals including gold.

In 2020, he founded 2020 Resources Pty Ltd, to promote excellence in mineral resource development and ore control processes.

Mr. Peshwa has nearly 32 years of experience as a mining and exploration geologist and specializes in gold exploration and resource modeling. He worked as a Mining & Exploration Geologist for 13 years with Bharat Gold Mines Limited. He has the distinction of working in the world famous Champion Reef Mine and carried out detailed exploration of Champion lode system both in deep and shallow levels. This has resulted in delineating new parallel lodes of the Champion Lode system. From 1996 to 2002 he worked as a Project Manager with ACC Limited and was involved in exploration of gold and other minerals. He successfully carried out gold prospecting in the Red Sea hills region of Sudan. Mr. Peshwa is responsible for the development of DGML’s Gold Projects and has implemented different exploration methods as per international standards including QA/QC programmes. He has international exposure for different styles for gold mineralization. Being a Fellow of Geological Society of London and Member of Geological Society of South Africa qualifies him as a competent person as defined by the JORC Code. Mr. Peshwa is also an RQP (Recognition as Qualified Person) awarded by Indian Bureau of Mines.

Consultant

Dr. MASTAN RAO CHUNDURI has 30 years of experience as as professional geologist in survey and mineral exploration using Remote Sensing and GIS. He has developed Expertise in regional targeting for gold, base metal, iron ore, peat/coal and other industrial commodities. He has implemented grass root to advance exploration programme. He has experience in managing multiple exploration programs with large team of geologists and geophysicists. He has hand in experience in liaising with various governments. He has work experience India, African Countries. He is a good team player and has the experience in building large team. He had developed expertise in Mapinfo, Arcinfo, ERDAS, Envi, & Datamine Studio.

Mr. Rajeev P. Hanamasagar has 15 years of experience in working on Mining & GIS softwares like DataMine, Surpac, Datamine Discover 3D, Auto-Cad and Mapinfo.  With his expertise in Database Management of Mining & Exploration data, he is involved in generation of seamless geological and structural maps for exploration & mining projects using GIS platform matching international standards.   In the past, he has assisted in preparing necessary geological maps and drill holes sections forming part of Mining Plan of 2 Gold Projects including the Ganajur Gold Project.

Also handles the implementation and maintenance of the Company’s technology infrastructure and central information processing system to support efficient data management and communications.   Rajeev is also responsible for the secure and effective operation of all computer systems, related applications, hardware and software in the Company.