Nick Clarke has over 40 years of mining experience in production, consulting and corporate activity. Mr Clarke is chief executive of AIM listed Central Asia Metals, a copper producing company with assets in Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Chile. He was managing director of Oriel Resources (AIM), until it was sold to Mechel OAO of Russia for US$1.5 billion in 2008. From 1992-2004, Mr Clarke was managing director of international mineral consultancy Wardell Armstrong International, where he managed numerous multidisciplinary mining projects in the CIS and Africa. Prior to this, he spent 16 years in production management within South Africa, Ghana, and Saudi Arabia. Mr Clarke graduated from Camborne School of Mines as a mining engineer and is a Chartered Engineer.
