Directors and Key Personnel

Wade Johnson, was appointed to the role of Managing Director of LEX when the company was re-quoted to the ASX on 17th October 2016.

Wade is a geologist with over 25 years’ experience in mineral exploration with a focus on gold in Western Australia. He was most recently exploration manager for Kalnorth Gold Mines Limited where he oversaw exploration of the company’s gold tenements near Kalgoorlie over a period of five years.

Prior to this Wade was with Newmont for 10 years where he held senior roles as Exploration Manager for Australia and then as Exploration Manager for Asia Pacific. During this time he was responsible for the management of green-fields exploration programs and project generation across the Yilgarn, Tanami, North Queensland and the Lachlan Belt (NSW) with a significant amount of activity in Western Australia.

He has also has had extensive exploration project management and field experience throughout the Northern Goldfields and Murchison with Wiluna Mines Limited, ASARCO, and St Barbara Mines Ltd.

Gordon is a mining engineer with extensive experience in operations, project development, senior management and directorship across a range of commodities, especially gold, copper and coal.

Gordon was General Manager at Ulan Coal in NSW’s Hunter Valley then Managing Director at Cumnock Coal in 1996. He then was Managing Director with Newcrest Mining where he oversaw development of the Cadia and Ridgeway Copper/Gold mines in NSW, the Gosowong Gold Mine in Indonesia, and the redevelopment of the Telfer Copper/Gold mine in WA.

Gordon entered investment banking in 1999 as Managing Director for Energy, Chemicals and Pharma at ABN AMRO and later was a founding Principal at Taurus Funds Management Pty Ltd.

Gordon is currently Chairman of NuCoal Resources Ltd and is a Non-Executive Director of Finders Resources Ltd and Realm Resources Limited.

Michael is a specialist in resource financing, with over 20 years’ experience in investment banking (Barclays, BZW and ABN AMRO) originating, structuring and arranging debt and providing corporate advice to natural resources companies internationally.

Michael also has had extensive commercial experience in the mining industry having been involved in the negotiation of joint venture agreements, participating on joint venture committees and negotiating the acquisition and sale of mining tenements. Michael is also a founding Principal and Director of Taurus Funds Management Pty Ltd and a Director of NuCoal Resources Ltd and Realm Resources Ltd.

Tara is a geologist with 25 years’ mining and exploration experience, predominantly in Western Australia. Tara is currently Managing Director and CEO at Cazaly Resources Ltd and prior to this was General Manager of Exploration for Regis Resources Limited where she was employed for 14 years and played a key role in the transition and growth of Regis over that time.

Tara has also held positions with Nickel Australia (now Azure Minerals), WMC (Central Norseman Gold Mines), and Placer Dome and has experience in project evaluation, resource estimation, open cut and underground mining across multiple commodities including, gold, nickel, and copper. Tara holds an honours degree in Economic Metalliferous Geology and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists.