The Company's founder and Chairman, Algy Cluff, has decades of highly successful natural resource discoveries starting with the Buchan Oil Field in the North Sea in 1975.
In 1980, Algy Cluff founded Cluff Resources to focus on mineral exploration in Africa and made several significant discoveries including the largest gold discovery in Africa since the Second World War (subsequently the Geita Mine in Tanzania), the Freda Rebecca Mine in Zimbabwe and the Ayanfuri Mine in Ghana.
In 1996, Cluff Resources was acquired by Ashanti Goldfield Company Ltd. In the same year backed by Anglo American Corporation, Algy Cluff founded Cluff Mining and later Cluff Gold, which made discoveries in Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, and Cote d'Iviore. Cluff Mining was subsequently re-named Ridge Mining and was acquired by Aquarius Platinum in 2009. Cluff Gold later became Amara Mining. Algy Cluff was the Founder, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive of Amara Mining Plc from 2004 to December 2010, Executive Chairman until July 2011 and subsequently Non-Executive Chairman up to April 2012, when he stepped down to concentrate on Cluff Natural Resources.
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