Austindo Resources has appointed Brad Wake as its Indonesia exploration manager.

Brad Wake is an Australian-educated geologist with 20 years experience exploring for gold, silver, base metals, tin and other metals in Australia and the South West Pacific region including more than eight years' work experience in Indonesia.

Included in his Indonesian achievements, Brad Wake was exploration team leader in the Minahasa region of North Sulawesi, responsible for planning, management and implementation of reconnaissance work that resulted in the discovery of the Toka Tindung epithermal gold-silver vein systems for Aurora Gold Limited in 1994.

South China appoints new non-executive director

South China Resources has appointment Bruce A. Stewart as a non-executive director of South China Resources.

Bruce Stewart, 42, has had a career in the global financial services industry and recently resigned from Jefferies & Co in New York to take up this position.

South China Resources was formed to focus on the development of mining assets in China and its first project is the Danfeng Project in the Shaanxi Province. This project is a high grade, porphyry-hosted copper-molybdenum-iron deposit, which is similar geologically to other deposits found in China and elsewhere in the world. This suggests that there is the potential for the discovery of other metals of economic interest and sampling at the project has already shown low but significant levels of gold and silver.