Directors

Get to know our Board Directors

  • Seamus Cornelius
    Seamus Cornelius
    Non-Executive Chairman
    Mr Cornelius brings to the Board over 25 years of corporate experience in both legal and commercial negotiations. Mr Cornelius has been living and working as a corporate lawyer in China for 17 years. He has been based in Shanghai and Beijing since 1993. From 2000 to 2010 he was an international partner with one of Australia’s leading law firms and specialized in dealing with cross border investments, particularly in energy and resources.

    Mr Cornelius has for many years advised large international companies on their investments in China and in recent years has advised Chinese state owned entities on their investments in natural resource projects outside of China including in Australia.
  • Anthony Maslin
    Anthony Maslin
    Non-Executive Director
    In his six years as a stockbroker at Hartley Poynton Stockbrokers in Perth, Mr Maslin was instrumental in the capital raisings and promotion of several resource development companies. In the subsequent seven years in his role as founding Managing Director of Solar Energy Systems Ltd (Now Solco Ltd (ASX Code: SOO)) he had significant experience in capital raisings and management of both people and projects.

    Mr Maslin has also worked as a corporate promotion consultant to a number of listed companies. He held the position of Managing Director of Buxton Resources from December 2010 to October 2014.
  • Stuart Fogarty
    Stuart Fogarty
    Non-Executive Director
    Mr Fogarty has over 20 years of exploration experience with BHP Billiton and Western Mining Corporation. Stuart was BHP’s Senior Exploration Manager for North and South America and currently serves as the Managing Director of Duketon Mining.

    Mr Fogarty has a very strong background in nickel exploration, having commenced his career at Kambalda Nickel Operations in 1994. He has had senior roles with BHP including Senior Geoscientist for nickel exploration in the Leinster and Mt Keith region, Project Manager WA Nickel Brownfields and Regional Manager Australia – Asia where he was responsible for $100 million per annum exploration budget.

    More recently Mr Fogarty was a Non-executive Director of Windward Resources during the successful takeover of the company by Independence Group.
  • Martin Moloney
    Martin Moloney
    CEO
    Mr Moloney is a geologist with experience in minerals exploration for a variety of commodities including Au, Ag, Cu, Mo, Pb / Zn, U, Sn, Ni and graphite. He has project management experience from greenfields to resource definition in a variety of jurisdictions and has worked for major mining houses, junior explorers, mid-tier producers, a boutique generative consultancy, in private equity, plus geophysical surveying contractors and GIS service & software providers.​

    Mr Moloney joined Buxton in April 2000 as Chief Geologist and transitioned to Chief Executive Officer on 9 August 2024.​
  • Sam Wright
    Sam Wright
    Company Secretary/CFO
    Founder and Managing Director of Straight Lines Consultancy, an advisory business providing services to ASX listed companies. Sam has extensive experience in relation to public company responsibilities, including ASX and ASIC compliance, control and implementation of corporate governance, statutory financial reporting and shareholder relations with both retail and institutional Investors. Mr Wright is Joint Company Secretary of Resolute Mining Limited from January 19, 2024 and serves as Non-Executive Director at Great Dirt Resources Ltd since August 28, 2023 and Reach Resources Limited since November 30 2021.​