# Kim Russell General Manager Development ## Career chronology - **Before 2024; exact dates not disclosed: PCF Capital / Argonaut** — Associate Director, due diligence and project financing. [Corporate Ladder: weekly guide to executive appointments in South Australia]() (InDaily executive appointments profile, 29 July 2024; prior role/employer chronology); [Management and Technical Team]() (Issuer biography or dated appointment record; see source notes) - **Before 2024; exact dates not disclosed: Pilbara Minerals** — Manager, Technical Services; Pilgangoora feasibility/implementation. [Corporate Ladder: weekly guide to executive appointments in South Australia]() (InDaily executive appointments profile, 29 July 2024; prior role/employer chronology); [Management and Technical Team]() (Issuer biography or dated appointment record; see source notes) - **Before 2024; exact dates not disclosed: Harmony Gold** — Manager, Technical Services. [Corporate Ladder: weekly guide to executive appointments in South Australia]() (InDaily executive appointments profile, 29 July 2024; prior role/employer chronology); [Management and Technical Team]() (Issuer biography or dated appointment record; see source notes) - **Most recent role before Barton appointment in July 2024: Rex Minerals** — Head of Mining Operations, Hillside Project. [Corporate Ladder: weekly guide to executive appointments in South Australia]() (InDaily executive appointments profile, 29 July 2024; prior role/employer chronology); [Management and Technical Team]() (Issuer biography or dated appointment record; see source notes) - **Appointed 22 July 2024; current at 2026-09-26: Barton Gold Holdings Limited** — General Manager Development. [Corporate Ladder: weekly guide to executive appointments in South Australia]() (InDaily executive appointments profile, 29 July 2024; prior role/employer chronology); [Management and Technical Team]() (Issuer biography or dated appointment record; see source notes) ## Contributions and company outcomes ### Tunkillia study development and engineering milestones [bgd_kim_success] 2024-07–2026-10 · issuer reported · medium materiality Barton published a May 2025 Tunkillia Optimised Scoping Study and started a PFS in June 2026, with GR Engineering appointed and Q1 CY2027 completion targeted. The issuer describes Russell as hired to lead project studies and development. Study economics are modeled results at stated commodity assumptions and do not establish delivered construction, commissioning or production. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Russell leads development studies; no source assigns him sole responsibility for engineering or study outcomes. **Relevance:** Highly relevant to project-development role; PFS and mining approvals remain incomplete at cutoff. [Annual Report 2025]() (Directors’ Report, printed p. 7, 22 July 2024 appointment and project timeline); [Optimised Scoping Study / Tunkillia]() (Optimised Scoping Study section and assumptions); [Tunkillia Pre-Feasibility Study Begins]() (Issuer release dated 21 June 2026); [Final Tunkillia Phase 2 assays]() (Issuer release dated 6 October 2026; Phase 2 final assays, update pending and PFS target); [Corporate Ladder: weekly guide to executive appointments in South Australia]() (InDaily appointment profile; appointed to lead Tunkillia development studies) ## Suitability for the current role ### Role fit remains only partly evidenced [bgd_kim_russell_rolefit] Current appointment through 2026-10-09 · analyst inference · low materiality Issuer states Bachelor of Engineering (Mining), First Class Honours, University of South Australia; FINSIA Graduate Diploma and Master’s Degree of Applied Finance & Investment; First Class Underground Manager’s Certificate and Mutual Recognition for Mine Managers Certificate. Independent institution/certificate verification was not performed. Role-fit inference: the documented background is relevant to the current role, but the evidence does not establish a full attributable performance record. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. This is an analytical role-fit assessment; it does not allege responsibility for outcomes. **Relevance:** Relevant to current General Manager Development duties at Barton Gold Holdings Limited. [Management and Technical Team]() (Management and Technical Team biography, education and career credentials); [Corporate Ladder: weekly guide to executive appointments in South Australia]() (InDaily appointment profile; mining-engineering and prior role experience) ## Evidence gaps - Exact dates and independent corroboration for several prior-employer roles are not disclosed in the cited public biographies. - Degrees, professional memberships and licences are issuer-reported; direct awarding-institution and register verification was not completed. - The documented name/employer searches and reviewed filings are not exhaustive criminal, sanctions, litigation, safety, environmental or regulatory record checks; no clearance is implied. - Company exploration, finance and project milestones are not personally attributable absent the role limits stated in each finding. - The FY2026 annual report was announced as released on 29 September 2026, but the full report could not be retrieved and read by the cutoff; no claim is based on its contents. - No individual adverse finding was established in the documented searches; the open-web review is not an exhaustive criminal, sanctions, litigation, safety, environmental or regulatory check.