Non-Executive Director Alistair Barton has 45 years of experience in the mining industry including exploration, project development, mining operations, contract mining and engineering services, consulting, capital fund raising and public company management. He has delivered projects across Australia and internationally covering exploration management, project valuation, independent expert reports, JORC 2012 resource estimates, compliance, feasibility study management and due diligence.

Mr Barton has held the positions of Managing Director for ASX listed Probe Resources, General Manager of Exploration for Barrack Mines, General Manager of Operations for Barrack Mines, Operations Manager for McIlwraith Minerals and various Project Management positions.

Mr Barton has operated his own consultancy practice providing technical and corporate advice to the resources sector, carrying out numerous resource project due diligence studies, feasibility studies and independent experts reports for project funding and developments. He was also a joint venture partner in the Wolfram Camp Mine development in Far North Queensland.

Highlights of specific experience Mr Barton brings with him to Polymetals include:

• Extensive exploration experience in Critical Minerals including Au, Ni, Cu, Pb, Zn, Ag, Sn, W, Mo, Li, and Co commodities around Australia and overseas.
• Significant mine development experience at various stages of his career, including: commodities around Australia and overseas.
  • The development of the Mt. Percy Gold Mine
  • The doubling of capacity at the Wiluna Gold Mine
  • The development of the Horseshoe Au Mine to a Cu, Au and Ag Mine
  • The development of the Croydon Gold Mine
  • The development of the Wolfram Camp W and Mo Mine
• Extensive experience in managing Scoping Studies, Prefeasibility Studies and Feasibility Studies on a variety of projects including epithermal gold projects in the Solomon Islands and the Philippines and porphyry copper projects in the Philippines and China.