Full background report
Chris Goti
Principal, Approvals & Heritage
Career chronology
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Current role at cutoff; start date not established in the reviewed records: Gorilla Gold Mines — Principal, Approvals & Heritage. Annual Report 2025 and leadership presentation (Issuer management page, Chris Goti entry)
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Prior role before King River Resources; exact dates not stated: Spartan Resources — General Manager — Environment & Heritage. About Us — Christopher Goti (Biography, Christopher Goti entry)
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Current at source access; exact appointment date not stated: King River Resources — Principal — Environment & Heritage. About Us — Christopher Goti (Biography, Christopher Goti entry)
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Joined by September 2025 quarterly report; commencement date not stated: Gorilla Gold Mines — Leads permitting, heritage and environmental studies across projects. September 2025 Quarterly Activities Report (September 2025 Quarterly Activities Report, leadership additions bullet)
Contributions and company outcomes
Gorilla reported resource and exploration growth in 2025
2025; reported November 2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality
The November 2025 issuer presentation reported approximately 650 koz of resources added across Western Australian projects in 2025, three high-grade discoveries at Comet Vale, a maiden Vivien resource and a fourfold Mulwarrie resource increase. Its later February 2026 presentation reported a 1.5 Moz Western Australian resource base, while planned drilling remained prospective. These are company-reported exploration milestones, not production, profitability or individual executive performance.
Attribution: Responsibility unresolved. Tenure overlap and each person’s individual contribution are not established by the presentation; it describes company outcomes only.
Relevance: Provides current execution context for the team.
Investor Presentation (pp.6–7; exploration and resource milestones); Directors & Management (career profile / current role)
Suitability for the current role
Relevance of current Principal, Approvals & Heritage role
Current at 2026-10-09 · analyst inference · medium materiality
The issuer identifies Chris Goti as Principal, Approvals & Heritage. This role is relevant to the company's current mining stage and needs; this is an analyst role-fit inference based on the disclosed title and company profile, not evidence of past personal performance. The reviewed sources do not establish a complete prior-employer chronology, independently verified credentials or full concurrent-interest list.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is a role-fit judgment, not an outcome or misconduct finding.
Relevance: Assesses alignment of disclosed responsibilities with current company needs.
Annual Report 2025 and leadership presentation (Issuer management page, Chris Goti entry)
Land access, approvals and heritage experience
At least 2020–2023 and current King River bio; exact transitions unknown · analyst inference · medium materiality
King River Resources’ issuer biography describes Goti as a land-access professional with WA gold mining and exploration management experience, including responsibility for environmental approvals and Native Title agreements, and a prior General Manager — Environment & Heritage role at Spartan Resources. The company said in its September 2025 quarterly report that Chris Goti (Spartan) joined to lead permitting, heritage and environmental studies across projects; the report PDF was blocked on open, so this is based on the indexed official announcement text. The public sources do not provide a complete chronology or education record; exact identity match is based on name, employer and role. A search lead to a WA regulator project document was inaccessible on open; it was not used as evidence.
Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. Documents establish relevant environmental approvals work but do not establish an environmental breach or a complete personal incident record.
Relevance: Land access, permitting and heritage experience aligns with GG8 approvals work.
About Us — Christopher Goti (Biography, Christopher Goti entry); September 2025 Quarterly Activities Report (September 2025 Quarterly Activities Report, leadership additions bullet)
Evidence gaps
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Issuer biographies supply abbreviated role histories, not full dated chronologies; prior-employer roles and individual accountability for employer outcomes are incompletely documented.
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Education and professional credentials are issuer-reported and were not independently checked where no primary credential record was found.
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Open-web adverse searches were focused and identity-aware but did not comprehensively review regulator, court, safety or environment records at every prior employer; no clearance conclusion is implied.
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A WA regulator Beatons Creek project document surfaced in search but could not be opened; its contents were not assessed.