Peter Bailey

Mr Bailey is a highly experienced and qualified engineer with over 40 years’ experience in the mining and industrial mineral production industry and has an electrical engineering degree from the University of London. Mr Bailey spent the majority of his career in the iron ore mining, bauxite mining, zinc-lead-copper mining, alumina refining and alumina chemicals industries respectively.

Mr Bailey was President of Alcoa Bauxite and Alumina in 1996, and was responsible for Alcoa’s eight alumina plants outside of Australia. He was also the chairman of the Alcoa Bauxite joint venture in Guinea, Africa.

In 1998, he was appointed President of Alcoa Worldwide Chemicals’ industrial chemicals department from 1998. He was responsible for Alcoa’s worldwide chemicals business, comprising 13 plants across eight countries, with an annual revenue of approximately $700 million. Post Alcoa, Mr Bailey was chief executive officer of Sherwin Alumina, an alumina refinery based in Texas, USA. The Sherwin alumina plant was capable of producing 1.4 mtpa of smelter grade alumina and 300,000 tonnes of chemical grade or specialty alumina per year. Mr Bailey together with Reynolds bought out the Sherwin Alumina plant, which was eventually sold to China Minmetals (51%) and then the remaining 49% to Glencore in 2007.