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2026-11-06

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Full background report

Kim Russell

General Manager Development

Career chronology

Contributions and company outcomes

Tunkillia study development and engineering milestones

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

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.