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2026-11-06

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Full background report

Mark Benson

General Manager — Telfer

Career chronology

  • Current role and background: Promoted Telfer general manager January 2026; earlier Telfer processing and maintenance roles: Greatland Resources Limited — General Manager — Telfer. December 2025 quarterly activities report (Management, general manager promotion); Corporate presentation (Experienced technical leadership team)

Contributions and company outcomes

Telfer first full-year production

FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Greatland reports that Telfer produced 328,987 ounces of gold in FY2026, its first full financial year under Greatland ownership. The company reported improvements in safety indicators; the result is a group outcome rather than a quantified individual achievement.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Richter served as acting COO for part of FY2026 and Benson was promoted site general manager in January 2026; individual causal contributions are not quantified.

Relevance: Delivered mine production and operational performance.

Annual report 2026 (FY2026 highlights and leadership section); December 2025 quarterly activities report (General manager promotion)

Suitability for the current role

Experience relevant to role

Career and current role as disclosed · analyst inference · low materiality

Telfer site and processing experience is relevant to direct operational delivery.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Analytical inference from disclosed roles; precise personal contribution to employer outcomes varies.

Relevance: Team capability and role fit.

December 2025 quarterly activities report (Management, general manager promotion); Corporate presentation (Experienced technical leadership team)

Evidence gaps

  • Independent verification of reported credentials and complete prior-employer dates was not obtained.

  • Targeted public-source searches do not exhaust legal, regulatory, sanctions, safety or litigation records.

  • Individual contribution to company-wide outcomes is not quantified.

  • Specific career dates, qualifications, and whether the role continued unchanged to 31 October 2026 have not been independently confirmed.

  • Some earlier topic rows reuse broad person and employer searches; topic-specific regulator, court, safety, fraud and environmental searches and full prior-employer histories are incomplete.