Trans-Tasman Resources Ltd announced the appointment of Tim Crossley as Chief Executive Officer, to be based in TTR's Wellington Head Office. He is to take up the position in early October this year.

Tim Crossley comes to TTR from Gloucester Coal, an ASX listed diversified coal company with open cut and underground mining operations in NSW and Queensland, Australia. Its NSW assets currently produce 5 Mtpa of coal.

Prior to this Mr Crossley was a senior executive with Hancock Prospecting and was President and Chief Operating Officer with BHP Billiton's West Australian iron ore business, which shipped 123 Mt of high grade ore in FY 2008. Before working in the iron ore business Mr Crossley held senior positions in BHP Billiton's manganese and metallurgical coal divisions.

Mr Bill Bisset the executive chairman of TTR said he is delighted with the depth and breadth of experience that TMr im Crossley brings with him particularly in the carbon steel raw materials sectors. He said that "Tim Crossley is a very experienced senior mining executive with an outstanding mining sector track record that will bring demonstrated skills in managing large complex operations with sensitive environmental requirements. He understands the supply chain and is familiar with broad commercial issues which will be crucial for TTR's future development.”

Mr Bill Bisset said that "This appointment marks a convergence of work streams and activities for TTR which are moving the company closer to achieving its objective of extracting iron ore from the iron sands off the coast of the North Island of New Zealand's west coast. In addition to the recent strengthening of our board, our environmental, geotechnical and beneficiation studies and trials are progressing well and bring us closer to the time when we can complete our Definitive Feasibility Study and seek consents for production of ore."

Source - Trans-Tasman Resources

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