Aim-listed uranium company Aura Energy, which is focused on the development of the 85%-owned Tiris uranium project, in Mauritania, has announced that new incoming MD and CEO David Woodall will take office on October 17. 

Woodall is a senior, corporate executive with a mining engineering qualification and 30 years' experience across exploration, operations, project development, community alignment and engagement in the mineral resources industry, including rare earths, critical minerals, gold, copper, iron-ore and nickel.   

He has broad experience across the value chain at operational, corporate and board level and has overseen transformation and change management in complex operating environments. 

Woodall also has experience in managing large, geographically distant teams across multiple locations and different cultures. 

He is a member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).    

"[Woodall’s] broad mining and corporate experience will be vital to fast-tracking to uranium production at the company, both in Mauritania and Sweden," Aura nonexecutive chairperson Phil Mitchell said. 

Woodall is succeeding Dr Will Goodall in the position. 

"[Under Goodall’s] leadership, we have crafted and progressed the implementation of a strategy that will facilitate the early development of the Tiris project and craft a realistic pathway to the establishment of a battery metals complex in Sweden based on the Haggan resource. [Goodall's] leadership has been at the core of advancing our projects,” Mitchell continued. 

Woodall and Goodall would work together to continue the advancement of the company, he said. 

"I am . . . part of the team that will develop the Tiris project and progress the development of a battery metals complex at Haggan, in Sweden . . . The importance of Tiris and the other Aura projects will play an important role in the security and stability of energy supply globally,” Woodall said.