Meet the Leadership at the helm of gold explorer QX Resources

Summary

The leadership team at QX Resources is committed to exploring and developing highly prospective gold projects in Australia with an immediate focus on Queensland.

QX Resources’ board and management team has a strong blend of technical and corporate skills critical to exploration and development endeavours.

QXR has acquired a 50% interest in Zamia Resources and holds the right to earn up to 90% interest.

A competent leadership team is one of the must ingredients required for becoming a successful organisation. A strong leadership team takes prudent decisions to ensure that the business achieves its targets, creates value for its shareholders and taps new opportunities.

In the metals and mining space, while many explorers pursue opportunities of different scales, a technical and commercially experienced board and management team is required to provide expert guidance and manoeuvre the exploration and strategic activities.

QX Resources: Pursuing the Golden Future

QX Resources Limited (ASX: QXR) is one such company that boasts of a skilled and qualified leadership team, taking prudent decisions.

Thanks to the leaders’ acumen and their efficient management of the exploration and development endeavours, strategies and implementation appear to be on the same wavelength for the Queensland-focused gold explorer.

The Company recently acquired a 50% interest in Zamia Resources, which holds four exploration licences covering ~115km² within the Drummond Basin. It is to be noted that the Drummond Basin in Central Queensland boasts of >6.5moz gold endowment as well as a long history of mining. Additionally, QXR holds the right to earn up to 90% ownership.

Interestingly, QXR is managed by four directors who have been successfully guiding the Company through its strategic advancements. They hold a proven track record of exploration plus project development/operations in Australia and worldwide.

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Let us glance through their technical and professional experience across the mineral resources’ domain.

Roger Jackson, Non-Executive Director

Mr Roger Jackson is a qualified geologist with more than 25 years of experience in minerals exploration, mining operations management, mining services and marketing of concentrate products.

Coupled with his own experience, he has assembled a team of geologists that have a track record of success working on Queensland gold projects and together, they are designing exploration programs over QXR’s most prospective targets with a focus on the historical and under explored Lucky Break Mine.

At present, Mr Jackson is also the Executive Director of London-based NQ Minerals Plc and has been critical to the growth and acquisition of Hellyer operational mine and the Beaconsfield gold mine. Between 2012 and 2015, he served as the founding director of privately held Central Gold Mines and Bracken Resources, which resumed operations at the Georgetown and Hillgrove gold plants.

Maurice Feilich, Executive Chairman

Mr Maurice Feilich is a seasoned professional with over three decades of experience in investment markets. He began his career in 1998 as an institutional derivative broker with McIntosh Securities, which later became Merrill Lynch. Thereafter, he served as the Head of Equities at Tricom Equities and later became a founding partner of Sanlam Private Wealth.

Over the years, Mr Feilich has built a strong reputation and a track record of solid networks in the resources segment. He has provided invaluable capital markets support.

Ben Jarvis, Non-Executive Director

Mr Ben Jarvis holds extensive experience across the small resources space as the director and strategic advisor to publicly listed firms. He also serves as the non-executive director of renowned gold and silver miner, Austral Gold Limited (ASX: AGD, TSX-V: AGLD) since 2011.

Mr Jarvis co-founded the prominent Australian advisory company, Six Degrees Investor Relations, in 2006. Currently, he serves as the Managing Director of the firm which provides investor relation services to various ASX-listed companies.

Dan Smith, Non-Executive Director & Company Secretary

Mr Dan Smith is an experienced chartered governance professional with 12 years of experience across the primary and second markets. Over the years, Mr Dan has advised numerous ASX companies on matters relating to IPOs, RTOs and fund raisings.

He is a member of the Governance Institute of Australia and the AICD (Australian Institute of Company Directors) and holds a solid background in finance, courtesy his stint in the stock broking industry. Mr Smith specialises in commercial due diligence, transaction structuring and stakeholder’s engagement.