Ardea Resources Limited announced the appointment of Mr. Mathew Longworth as its new Independent Non-Executive Chair following the resignation of Ms Katina Law from the Board. Ms Law has stepped down due to an increasing corporate work load and her community commitments. Mr. Longworth is a geologist with 33 years' experience across exploration, project evaluation/development, operations and corporate management. He previously held roles as Exploration Manager, COO and CEO/Managing Director with Australian listed companies, and mining analyst with a boutique investment fund. In his senior corporate roles, Mathew led multidisciplinary project evaluation and development teams. Mr. Longworth is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr. Longworth has excellent experience of the key Ardea exploration and development projects, being the Bardoc Tectonic Zone (BTZ) gold and Kalgoorlie Nickel Project (KNP) nickel-cobalt. In 1996 Mr. Longworth assumed management responsibility for all of Goldfields and then Aurion Gold exploration in the Eastern Goldfields including the Kundana and Paddington mine areas and the BTZ. This included the discovery and initial resource estimation of the Aphrodite gold deposit in 1997 to 1999 and Raleigh and Paradigm gold deposits in 2000. After the takeover of Aurion Gold by Placer Dome Mr. Longworth joined Heron Resources in 2003 as Exploration Manager rising to Managing Director in 2007 to 2011. Mr. Longworth applied his intimate knowledge of the BTZ and broader Eastern Goldfields geology to the KNP to collaborate with Vale Inco in their 2005 to 2009 KNP feasibility study.