Board and Management
Non-Executive Director (Chairperson) – QUINN LEE
Ms. Quinn Lee, a major shareholder in COY and a seasoned corporate executive, brings over 20 years of experience in the resources and development sectors. She has extensive expertise in asset divestment and project financing, having successfully led numerous significant asset sales for private and listed companies, thus ensuring proper value recognition for shareholders.
Ms. Lee’s appointment as COY’s Non-Executive Director and Chairperson follows her role as Executive Chairperson at Aldoro Resources (ASX: ARN). Under her leadership, Aldoro has achieved notable success in license renewal, fundraising, metallurgical testing, strategic revisions, board restructuring, and establishing key operations in Namibia. Additionally, she established and optimized ARN’s drilling capacity and activities, reducing costs and maximizing efficiency and value. Her tenure has seen the transition of mineral focus from REE to Nb, the execution of new surveys (including magnetic, trenching, sampling, and topography), and the establishment of supportive infrastructure and supply chains within a remarkably short timeframe.
Ms. Lee also established her own firm specializing in corporate development and investment services with focuses on mining project exploration, financing, investment, and development, with networks spanning Australia and China. In the past 18 months, Ms. Lee has facilitated transactions worth over $150 million AUD for public, private, and ASX-listed companies.
Managing Director – MARK BURKE
Mark Burke brings 15 years of experience in senior management roles across resources, extractive industries, pit-to-port logistics, and mining operations. With a proven track record of excellence in corporate development and stakeholder engagement, Mark joins the team after successfully guiding ‘Newcam Minerals’ from its inception, through the critical stages of greenfield exploration and regulatory approvals, culminating in the transition to full-scale production. These mining assets now ship high-grade DSO iron ore through Western Australian ports to Asian markets.
Mark’s extensive knowledge in mining and logistics has underpinned his roles in strategy and portfolio development. In addition to his role at Newcam, he served as Chief of Business Development at Campbell Transport, a prominent West Australian mining-logistics firm, from 2020 to 2024. Under his leadership, Campbell Transport’s growth strategy saw a 420% increase, diversifying its portfolio to include several ASX clients. He has also held senior management positions at Holcim Australia.
Renowned for his strategic vision, Mark excels in enhancing operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness, consistently boosting productivity while reducing expenses. As Managing Director of COY, he will accelerate the exploration program and implement strategies to drive growth by empowering the experienced geological and exploration team.
Commenting on his appointment, Mark Burke, Managing Director; “I’m looking forward to Day 1 working with the Coppermoly team, and already having my boots on the ground in our prospective QLD tenements. I feel privileged to step foot onto Mitakoodi and Kalkadoon country in the famous Ernest Henry Discovery region. It is an honour to work alongside Dr Minlu Fu, who discovered the Ernest Henry resource and Dr Wanfu Huang who has been the Managing Director of COY previously. I hope to empower both these gentleman with extra resources and my assistance in managing COY’s accelerated growth strategy, in the hopes of uncovering our own future ‘legacy’ discoveries akin to Ernest Henry, which returns value to our large suite of shareholders”
Joint Company Secretaries – ROWAN HARLAND and ROBBIE FEATHERBY
Mr. Harland is a corporate advisor at SmallCap Corporate, a boutique corporate advisory firm specialising in providing company secretarial, CFO and transaction management services involving both listed and unlisted companies. Mr. Harland serves as Company Secretary for several listed and unlisted companies and holds a Master of Finance and a Bachelor of Commerce degree.
Robbie Featherby is a Corporate Advisory Executive and Chartered Secretary who holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree majoring in Finance and Economics and is a member of the Governance Institute of Australia. Mr Featherby has an extensive number of years’ experience in the financial services industry, having spent 4 years in London working at a leading investment research provider in the private equity sector.
Mr Featherby is a Company Secretary to a number of ASX-listed companies with a broad range of corporate governance experience and has been involved with public company listings, mergers and acquisitions transactions and capital raisings for ASX-listed companies
Non- Executive Director and Head of Technical – Dr MINLU FU
Dr Fu is a highly accomplished geologist who received his PhD from La Trobe University in 1989. From 1987 to 2000, Dr Fu worked for Western Mining Corporation in Australia and China as a research geologist, senior research geologist, and exploration manager.
He has significant maiden exploration success which includes the West Musgrave nickel deposit (Western Australia), the Tampakan copper gold deposit (Philippines), and the Ernest Henry copper-gold deposit (Queensland). Notably, Ernest Henry is one of Australia’s largest, long-life, low-cost copper-gold projects.
Further to Dr Fu’s technical involvement with a number of successful ASX listed companies he has also been instrumental in the discovery of the Jinxi-Yelmand epithermal gold deposit, the Huangtupo VMS copper, zinc, gold and silver deposit, the Jinhe copper-gold deposit, the South copper-gold deposit and the Huangtan volcanogenic gold deposit, all of which are based in Xinjiang -PRC.
Senior Consultant Geologist – Dr WANFU HUANG
Dr Wanfu Huang, PhD, MSc, BSc, has more than 20 years experience in the exploration industry. He has held numerous positions in the industry, covering base metals, gold, iron ore, coal and bauxite in Australia and overseas. Dr Huang is a member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists and has been a director of COY since 2015, and in previous years held the role as Managing Director. Dr Huang has stepped down from the board to focus on COY’s potential exploration discoveries and accelerated geology tasks alongside Dr Minlu Fu.