Welcome
New Hanover is a private unlisted Australian company funded by Australian-based shareholders. Its registered office is Collins Square, Tower Four, Level 18, 727 Collins Street, Docklands, Victoria, 3008, Australia.
The company is a gold explorer. Its main area of interest is the historically significant Steiglitz Goldfield located about half way between Ballarat and Geelong in Victoria. A large part of the Steiglitz Goldfield is held by the Company under Exploration Licence 6164 that covers 51 square kilometres and is renewed to 12 October 2026.
The Company works according to the guidelines issued by Earth Resources Regulation, Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, the government body which administers mineral exploration in Victoria; and, subject to various statutory requirements being satisfied, this Exploration Licence permits it to explore for gold and other minerals in the relevant land, but it does not entitle, in itself, the company to undertake mining.
The Steiglitz Goldfield is part of the Bendigo-Ballarat gold zone which has produced over 80 million ounces of gold. Historically, Steiglitz produced around 250,000 ounces of gold at a grade of 38 grams of gold per tonne (equivalent to just over one ounce of gold per tonne of ore), ranking it in the top 10 of producers and the second highest grade in the whole belt. It is one of the few old gold rush sites in Australia that has not had a modern gold exploration program applied to it, especially drilling. Steiglitz has a number of geological similarities to the Fosterville gold deposit located near Bendigo, now a seven million ounce deposit being mined by underground methods.
Given these characteristics, New Hanover believes the potential is good for discovery of commercial underground deposits of gold.
The company is led by experienced and well credentialed directors. They enjoy the support of similarly well credentialed technical advisors who are also proven ore finders and shareholders of the company.
Directors
Dr Timothy F. McConachy
Director
Tim is a geologist with four decades of experience in the mineral and mining industry. He has an enviable track record of discovery in Australia, SE Asia and SW Pacific. Formerly Chief Geologist with Rio Tinto and Head of Seabed Ore Systems at CSIRO, Australia’s leading research agency where he co-shared the Chairman’s Gold Medal for Excellence in Marine Science. He is a co-founder of multinational Bluewater Metals Group of companies, and other resource companies including New Hanover Exploration, Spencer Metals and Peak Oil PNG.
Mr Harvey J. Cook
Director
Harvey is an accountant with over 35years in a Melbourne-based chartered accounting business (as founding partner), broad-based accounting and taxation skills, specialized financial strategy advice to individuals and corporations within finance, resource and service industries. He founded Whelan & Cook, one of Australia’s most successful privately owned chartered accounting firms, in 1984, which has since merged with BDO Chartered Accountants. In 2010, Harvey resigned from Whelan & Cook to focus full-time on minerals and energy exploration sectors. He is the co-founder of multinational Bluewater Metals Group of companies, New Hanover Exploration, Spencer Metals and Peak Oil PNG all of which he is a director and significant shareholder
Technical Advisors
Mr Christopher Anderson
Mr Christopher Anderson, geophysicist, is the co-discoverer of the Carrapateena copper-gold deposit, South Australia, currently being mined by Oz Minerals, the Kalkaroo copper-gold and Siviour graphite deposits in South Australia; plus the one million ounce Gokona gold deposit in Tanzania.
Mr Geoffrey W. McConachy
Mr Geoffrey W. McConachy, geologist, is the co-discoverer of Four Mile uranium and Siviour graphite deposits, South Australia. He was also involved in the early exploration and resulting resource estimations at Fosterville, Victoria. Fosterville is now a mine with production and resources in excess of seven million ounces of gold.
Acknowledgement of Country
The Way We Work
New Hanover Exploration adopts a proactive and exemplary approach to compliance, and promotes safe exploration practices that prevent or minimise impacts on the environment, community and other land users. This entails consulting with landowners and communities in an open and transparent way.
New Hanover is required and shall adhere to all standard licence conditions and comply fully with The Code of Practice for Mineral Exploration.
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Registered Office:
Collins Square, Tower Four
Level 18, 727 Collins Street,
Docklands, Victoria, 3008
Australia