Corazon Mining Limited announced changes to its board, effective from September 1, 2023. Long-standing director Mr. Jonathan Downes will retire from the Board, and Ms. Kristie
Young and Mr. Andrew Strickland have been appointed to the Board as Non-Executive Directors. Mr. Downes has stepped down from the Board of Corazon to focus on his role as managing director of junior gold production and exploration company Kaiser Reef Limited. Mr. Downes is a founding director of Corazon and has made a significant contribution to the development of the Lynn Lake Project in Canada and the acquisition of the Mt Gilmore Project in New South Wales. Incoming Non-Executive Director, Ms. Kristie Young, has a unique background across mining engineering, business development, project evaluation, marketing, strategy, growth, corporate governance and ESG. Ms. Young began her career as a mining engineer in the mid-1990's, and has worked with Hamersley Iron, Mt Isa Mines and Plutonic Gold. She also has significant expertise in business development and growth, including business development director roles with EY & PwC, and has more than 15 years' experience holding positions on the boards of ASX companies and not-for-profit organisations. She is currently a Non-Executive Director of Lithium Australia Ltd, Tesoro Gold Ltd, Brazilian Rare Earths Ltd. and MinEx CRC. Ms Young is also a member of Wesley College WA Board and Perth University of Queensland EAIT Alumni Ambassador. Ms. Young holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) Hons UQ 1995, Post Graduate Diploma of Education (Maths, IT) UWA 2001, Cert IV Human Resources 2014, Graduate of the AICD 2015 and is a Fellow of the AusIMM. Incoming Non-Executive Director, Mr. Strickland, is an experienced resources sector senior executive. He has a strong track record of project development and project management across a diverse range of commodities including base metals, precious metals, industrial minerals and iron ore, in Australia and in international jurisdictions. He has a broad understanding and experience in all aspects of developing mining projects including geology, mine design optimisation and planning, infrastructure design, environment approvals as well as permitting, marketing, project estimation, project financial analysis and financing. Mr. Strickland is currently part of the executive leadership team at Blackstone Minerals Ltd, where he is responsible for project development, mergers and acquisitions and partnership development. Through this role he has developed strong relationships throughout the battery metals supply chain sector in Australia, Canada and Southeast Asia. Previously, Mr. Strickland was a Senior Study Manager for major mining services engineering group, GR Engineering Services, where he was responsible for delivering scoping studies and feasibility studies for a range of Australian and international projects. He has also held a variety of business development and project development roles with several mineral resources companies including South32 Ltd, Straits Resources Ltd, Perseus Mining Ltd. and Tiger Resources Ltd. Mr. Strickland is a Fellow of the AusIMM, University of WA MBA graduate, with undergraduate degrees in Chemical Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy from Curtin and WASM.