Joseph Ranford is a mining engineer with over 25 years of senior management experience across domestic and international mining companies. He also has significant experience bringing mining operations into production within sensitive communities, and considerable knowledge of the South Australian mining approval process and stakeholder landscape.
Prior to becoming the operations director of Andromeda Metals in May 2020, Mr Ranford was the chief operating officer of Nordic Gold, a Canadian-based company which was the previous owner of the Laiva Gold Mine in Finland where he re-established mining operations and brought the project back into production from care and maintenance. He was also the operations manager of Terramin Australia, where he managed all operational and technical aspects of the Angas Zine Mine and championed the evaluation and approval processes for the Bird in Hand Gold Project, both in the community sensitive Adelaide Hills district of South Australia.
