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Competent Person’s Report
Publishing Date: 27th June 2019

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Shareholder Call Presentation March 2019
Publishing Date: 19th March 2019

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Shareholder Call Transcript March 2019
Publishing Date: 19th March 2019

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Corporate Presentation November 2018
Publishing Date: 8th November 2018

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Q3 Corporate Presentation 2018
Publishing Date: 29th August 2018

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Q2 CORPORATE PRESENTATION 2018
Publishing Date: 30th April 2018

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INTERIM PRESENTATION
Publishing Date: 21st February 2018

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Q1 Corporate Presentation 2018
Publishing Date: 10th January 2018

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Q4 Corporate Presentation
Publishing Date: 4th October 2017

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Q3 Corporate Presentation
Publishing Date: 5th July 2017

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Q2 Corporate Presentation
Publishing Date: 8th May 2017

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Prospectus
Publishing Date: 25th January 2017

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Gakara Mining Convention
Publishing Date: 25th March 2015

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Prospectus
Publishing Date: 15th July 2019

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Form of Proxy
Publishing Date: 3rd July 2019

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Notice of EGM
Publishing Date: 3rd July 2019

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Interim Results for the six months ended 31 December 2018
Publishing Date: 12th March 2019

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Annual Report 2018
Publishing Date: 10th October 2018

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Notice of AGM
Publishing Date: 10th October 2018

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Unaudited Interim Results for the six months ended 2017
Publishing Date: 21st February 2018

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Annual Report 2017
Publishing Date: 19th October 2017

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Notice of AGM
Publishing Date: 19th October 2017

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George Bennett

George Bennett
Chief Executive Officer

With over 25 years’ experience in mining, finance and management, George has led a number of mining and energy companies, including Shanta Gold Ltd (which he successfully listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2005), OreCorp Ltd, Argentum (Pty) Energy, and most recently Karo Power (Pvt) Ltd.

In 2006, George established MDM Engineering Ltd, which he successfully listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2008. MDM Engineering Ltd is a mining engineering company building mineral process plants and mining infrastructure throughout Africa. In 2014, George was instrumental in selling the business to Foster Wheeler Limited for US$120 million.

In addition, George has been a partner and director with a number of leading financial, broking and advisory businesses including Fergusson Bros, Simpson Mckie, and HSBC Securities Africa (Pty) Ltd.

Adonis Pouroulis

Adonis Pouroulis
Non-Executive Chairman

Adonis is an entrepreneur whose expertise lies in the discovery, exploration and development of natural resources across Africa. Having worked in the sector for over 25 years he has extensive experience and a wide network of industry relationships across the continent. Adonis is founder and chairman of Petra Diamonds (LSE: PDL), founder and director of Chariot Oil & Gas (AIM: CHAR) and founder and chairman of the Pella Resources Group. Adonis holds a Bachelor of Science Degree (Honours).

Shawn McCormick

Shawn McCormick
Non-Executive Director

Shawn is an International Affairs specialist with more than 20 years’ political and extractive industries sector experience having served in The White House as Director for African Affairs on the National Security Council (Washington), Political Affairs Director of BP (London) and Vice President of TNK-BP (Moscow). He is currently Managing Director of Connaught Strategies Ltd and an adviser to the Pella Resources Group.

 

Robert Sinclair

Robert Sinclair
Non-Executive Director

Robert is Managing Director of the Guernsey based Artemis Trustees Limited, and a director of a number of investment fund management companies and investment funds associated with Artemis Trustees Limited.  He has over 48 years’ experience in finance and accountancy of which 38 years have been spent in the Guernsey financial services industry. Robert is a director of several companies which are quoted on the London Stock Exchange. In the natural resources sector, he is a director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of both Chariot Oil & Gas Limited and EF Realisation Company Limited. In the property sector, he is a director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Picton Property Income Limited. Robert is also Chairman of Schroder Oriental Income Fund Limited. He a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. Robert is a resident of Guernsey.

Alexander Lowrie

Alexander Lowrie
Non-Executive Director

Alex is the co-founder of Telemark Capital LLP, a partnership focusing on capital advisory and asset management. Through its consulting subsidiary, Gunnerside Advisors, Alex is also involved in providing governance services as an independent investment committee member to a variety of advisory panels.  Prior to this Alex worked for 13 years in investment banking. He was a director at Deutsche Bank and then RBS from 2004 to 2012, having started his banking career in 1998 at ABN AMRO. Through these positions, he has gained extensive market experience in primary and secondary equity offerings including bringing companies to market through IPOs (including structuring, marketing and distribution). Alex graduated from Durham University with a BA (hons) in Combined Social Sciences, and he is also in the process of completing an executive MBA from Henley Business School.

Gilbert Midende

Gilbert Midende
General Manager

Gilbert Midende has a doctorate in Geological Science, which he obtained in 1984 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He was appointed Burundi Director General of Geology and Mines in 1987 and was Minister of Mines between 1988 and 1993. He has been a consultant to the World Bank since 2007. From 1996 to 2001, he was Principal of the University of Burundi and Minister of Higher Education and is currently Professor in Economic Geology at the University of Burundi. Gilbert is responsible for all of the Group’s administration and Government relations in Burundi.

Peter Connery

Peter Connery
Project Manager

Peter has nearly twenty years’ experience of mine management on the African continent and has significant experience in leading and implementing the development of safe and reliable facilities in some of the most challenging commercial environments in the world. He has successfully held senior executive positions within competitive and diverse multinational organisations operating across Africa and has held management positions with Anglo American and BHP Billiton. Prior to his career in mining, Peter had a distinguished career in the British and French military.

Cesare Morelli

Cesare Morelli
Technical Director

Cesare Morelli has over 29 years’ experience in minerals exploration in Africa including 18 years in diamond exploration with De Beers managing projects in south, west and central Africa. Following his time with De Beers, he spent four years with BHP Billiton as Minerals Exploration Manager for Africa. At BHP Billiton he directed exploration projects in a variety of commodities, namely iron ore, aluminium bauxite, manganese, copper and base metals, nickel and potash. Cesare has been affiliated with Rainbow since its inception and has been responsible for project managing all of Rainbow’s exploration work to date. He is a Director of Benzu Minerals (Pty) Ltd, a consulting company based in South Africa. Cesare is a member of the South African Geological Society and the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions.

Atul Bali

Atul Bali
Non-Executive Director

Is a corporate CEO with extensive experience in tech, government contracting and regulated industries operating on all six continents. Over more than 20 years he has led more than 50 M&A and JV transactions in more than 25 countries and both managed and served on the boards of several highly regulated businesses. Currently he serves as Non-executive Director of Gaming Realms Plc, a mobile games publisher, and as Chairman of Meridian Gaming, regulated and operating in more than 30 countries, with a large footprint in Africa, Central and South America and Central and Eastern Europe. He has previously held divisional CEO or President positions with IGT (NYSE), Aristocrat (ASX), and Real Networks (NASDAQ), as well as a venture capital firm. He previously trained as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG in the UK.

Jim Wynn

Jim Wynn
CFO

Jim is a Chartered Accountant and was previously employed by Anglo American plc where he held a number of roles within the finance, business development, and strategy departments of Anglo Industrial Minerals. Jim’s most recent role was as Finance Director of Avocet Mining Plc where he developed extensive experience in francophone Africa as well as the London public company market.