Leadership Boost: Horizon Minerals Strengthens Board Amid Growth Plans | ASX 200 Insights

Highlights

• Horizon Minerals appoints seasoned geologist Robert Waugh to its board
• Waugh brings 35+ years of mining and exploration expertise
• Strategic move aligns with Horizon’s gold-focused growth ambitions

Horizon Minerals (ASX:HRZ), an emerging name in the gold exploration and development space, has welcomed highly experienced mining executive Robert Waugh to its board as a non-executive director. This move marks a strategic enhancement to the company’s leadership team, reinforcing its commitment to expanding its footprint in the gold-rich regions of Western Australia.

Waugh, who brings over three and a half decades of extensive experience in mineral exploration and resource development, has held senior leadership roles at notable firms such as WMC Resources and BHP (ASX:BHP). His most recent role as Managing Director at Musgrave Minerals witnessed a notable milestone—its acquisition by Ramelius Resources (ASX:RMS) in a $200 million transaction.

His career is distinguished by involvement in several high-impact resource discoveries across Australia. Notably, Waugh played key roles in uncovering the Break of Day, White Heat, and Big Sky gold deposits at Cue, and the Nebo-Babel nickel-copper resource in the West Musgrave region. Additional highlights include the Cobbler gold deposit at Norseman and uranium deposits at Duke Batman and Honeypot in Queensland.

Waugh holds a Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University of Western Australia and a Master of Science in Mineral Economics from the Western Australian School of Mines. His expertise is further validated through his membership in the Australian Institute of Geoscientists. Currently, he serves as non-executive Chair at Caprice Resources (ASX:CRS) and as a non-executive director at Future Battery Minerals (ASX:FBM).

Welcoming Waugh to the board, Horizon Minerals' Chair Ashok Parekh emphasized the strategic importance of this appointment, especially as the company works to expand its 1.8-million-ounce gold resource and explore new discovery opportunities within the prolific Western Australian goldfields.

The appointment comes at a time when investor interest in ASX dividend stocks remains strong, and as companies listed on the S&P/ASX 200 seek to bolster their leadership teams to stay competitive.

With a firm foundation in Western Australia's gold sector and an enriched leadership structure, Horizon Minerals appears poised for its next phase of development within the ASX 200 landscape.