Company
Kainantu Resources Ltd. (KRL)
PNG operating subsidiary, wholly owned by SPMC
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
A mining executive with over 40 years of global experience spanning exploration, project development, operations and capital markets. He has held senior roles at Goldcorp and Placer Dome, with deep expertise in M&A, strategy, and advancing large-scale projects across the Americas and Asia-Pacific.
Chief Financial Officer
A Chartered Professional Accountant with over 20 years in the mining and resource sector, combining technical depth with public-company reporting experience. She serves as CFO for several companies, supported by the Vancouver-based Malaspina Consultants team, and holds a B.Sc. in Geology from Queen’s University.
Country Manager
A professional engineer and operations manager with extensive international experience, responsible for all in-country operations and personnel management in PNG.
Exploration Manager
Leads geological and exploration supervision across SPMC’s projects, with 30 years of worldwide exploration experience, including PNG, and prior roles at Mt Isa Mines, Barrick and Xstrata. His work spans the circum-Pacific region and covers porphyry, epithermal, IOCG and orogenic deposit styles.
Project Manager
A geologist with over 18 years of international experience in remote operations, including two prior PNG drilling programs. As a former Project Director with KRL (now SPMC), he managed the Wabo Project that delivered PNG’s first JORC-compliant coal resource, with strengths in strategy, logistics and cross-cultural engagement.
Technical Advisor (QP)
Director at Odette Geoscience and Principal of Geospy in Perth, Australia, with more than 30 years in mineral exploration across program management and consulting. He has worked worldwide, with prior discovery experience on alkalic epithermal and porphyry Cu-Au deposits.
Corporate Secretary
Janet Francis is the Principal of Keystone Corporate Services Inc. (2014 – present), a consulting firm specializing in corporate compliance, governance, and administrative services to public and private companies. With over 20 years of experience in the capital markets sector, she leads a team supporting issuers listed on Canadian stock exchanges, including companies that are cross-listed or quoted in multiple jurisdictions. Janet currently serves as Corporate Secretary of several TSX Venture Exchange-listed issuers.
Governance
Executive Chairman
Founder of Torex Gold (TSX: TXG), now a multi-billion-dollar gold producer, where he served 12 years as a director and helped raise over $1 billion in debt and equity. He previously spent 15 years in London’s financial services sector with Merrill Lynch, DLJ and Credit Suisse.
Director
Brings 40 years in gold and base-metal exploration, having helped build Barrick Gold into a leading producer as EVP of Exploration and Corporate Development. A 2023 Canadian Mining Hall of Fame inductee, he has led world-class discoveries and strategic acquisitions across his career.
Director
A resource-industry executive with senior experience across the full mining cycle, from exploration and financing through operations and divestment. Currently Chairman of PDI Gold Limited (ASX), he was founding CEO and later Chairman of Orca Gold, acquired by Perseus Mining in 2022, and specializes in M&A, public equity markets and corporate finance.
Director
An energy-sector executive with more than 18 years in managed services, including seven years as CEO of Pacific Energy Consulting, a leading mid-market EPMC contractor in PNG. Now CEO of Twenty20 Energy, he is delivering major projects including a 45 MW gas-fired power station in Port Moresby, with deep government and corporate networks across PNG and Southeast Asia.
Director
An experienced corporate director with a background in M&A, corporate finance and governance, including leadership roles at MAG Silver and Roxgold. A former lawyer, he holds a B.A. from Oakland University and an LL.B. from the University of British Columbia.
Our Commitment
South Pacific Metals Corp. (SPMC) is positioning itself as one of the most compelling early-stage gold-copper exploration stories in Papua New Guinea. The operating entity in PNG is Kainantu Resources Ltd. (KRL), a wholly owned subsidiary. Operational focus on Gold & Copper Exploration in a world-class district with rich metal endowment; multi-stage exploration programs now underway.
The Company is committed to disciplined, responsible exploration that respects the land, the communities, and the long-term interests of every stakeholder it works alongside.
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SPMC works to minimize the footprint of its exploration activity, protect the biodiversity of the regions where it operates, and responsibly manage and rehabilitate the land it touches. Environmental care is built into how programs are planned and run, not added after the fact.
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SPMC invests in the communities around its projects, supports local economic development, and operates with respect for cultural diversity. The Company maintains consistent, direct engagement with community leadership through a dedicated team of in-country community liaisons.
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SPMC is led by an experienced board with deep capital-markets and mining expertise and operates to the disclosure and reporting standards of the TSX Venture Exchange. The Company is committed to transparent reporting, sound risk management, and accountable decision-making at every stage of exploration.
Corporate
Legal Counsel
1133 Melville Street, Suite 3500
Vancouver, BC, V6E 4E5 Canada
Transfer Agent
350-409 Granville Street
Vancouver BC, V6C 1T2 Canada
Auditor
1700-475 Howe St
Vancouver BC, V6C 2B3 Canada
Offices
710-1030 West Georgia St
Vancouver, BC V6E 2Y3 Canada
Sec. 50 Lot 21, Elanese Road
Konedobu, NCD Papua New Guinea
U.S./Canada Toll-Free: 1-888-899-7973
Direct (All Regions): +1-604-260-0309
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