
David Ward
Non-Executive Technical Director (Geologist)
David Ward is a seasoned geologist and mining industry executive with over 25 years of experience encompassing early-stage exploration, project development through to open pit and underground mining.
Throughout David’s career, David has demonstrated a strong commercial perspective on driving value creation. For the last 8 years as Chief Geologist of Private Company, Bacchus Resources, David was instrumental in defining over 950Koz of gold resources in the NT, while overseeing the development of other exploration assets in the NT, QLD and NSW. These assets were then incorporated into key projects for multiple ASX-listed exploration companies.
In addition to his success at Bacchus Resources, David has played key exploration and operational technical roles in several companies, including Newcrest Mining, as Production and Resource Definition Geologist for the Cadia Gold Mine and Clancy Exploration as Senior Exploration Geologist overseeing Porphyry and Epithermal exploration in the Lachlan Fold Belt NSW.