Grant Pierce

Grant Pierce OAM is a mining engineer with over 25 years of experience in both open-pit and underground mining operations and in a range of commodities including gold, copper, copper/cobalt, nickel, iron ore and rare earth elements.

He has extensive management experience, having held numerous senior operational management roles with both mining and exploration companies operating in Africa.

Mr Pierce was a member of the development team that built Tanzania’s first modern gold mine, Resolute’s Golden Pride Project, and was operations manager of the mine for its first 6 years of production. Other senior roles include executive general manager (Tanzania) for Barrick Gold Corporation, during which time the Tulawaka Gold Mine came online, and general manager (Operations) for Perseus Mining from the environmental permitting phase through construction and to the Edikan Mine’s first gold pour.

He is also a founding director of the not-for-profit organisation Bridge2Aid Australia.

Mr Pierce was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2003 for his personal contribution to social development in rural Tanzania. In 2006, he was also awarded Tanzania’s Zeze Award, the highest accolade for outstanding contribution to Tanzania’s cultural development.