John King Burns Chairman
Mr. Burns has extensive experience in the global resource sector. He is a former VP and CFO of the Drexel Burnham Lambert Commodity Group in New York, London and Chicago, a former MD and Global Head of the Derivative Trading and Finance Group of Barclays Metals Group, Barclays Bank PLC in London and a former MD and Associated Person of FRM Risk Management Inc. in Chicago. He has also acted as an independent Director, Audit Committee member and Lead Director for a number of publicly listed resource companies.
Currently, Mr. Burns serves as Independent Director of NovaDx Ventures Corp. Vancouver, Canada; Director of Hunter Energy LLC, Centennial, Colorado; Senior Project Advisor to Potomac Asset Management Co, Frederick, Maryland and a Director of Jinshan Gold Mines, Inc.
- 2010-10-19 October 19, 2010 Notice to Shareholders available under Investors (News Releases).
- 2010-10-06 Prof. Frank Clemente, "the world is turning to coal," by 2030, coal consumption will have increased by 53% and coal-fired power generation by 85%. Coal will account for 48% of global incremental electricity generation over the next 20 yrs.
- 2010-10-07 According to a report by China's Xinhua News Agency, China is expected to have the world's largest coal-conversion industry by 2020.
