Senior Management Change and Mali Update

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Stock Resolute Mining Ltd (RSG.ASX)
Release Time 13 Dec 2024, 9:06 a.m.
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 Resolute Mining CEO to take leave, management changes announced
Key Points
  • CEO Terry Holohan to take leave of absence until 31 January 2025
  • Chris Eger to become acting CEO, Dave Jackson to become acting CFO
  • Final settlement payment of ~US$30M to Malian government in December 2024
Full Summary

Resolute Mining ('Resolute' or the 'Company') (ASX/LSE: RSG) announces that CEO Terry Holohan will be taking a leave of absence from 13 December 2024 until the 31 January 2025 to spend time with his family. During this time, Chris Eger will become acting CEO. The current Group Financial Controller, Dave Jackson, will become acting CFO. Chris Eger has been the CFO at Resolute since joining the Company in February 2023 and has over 25 years of experience leading strategic, financial, and commercial functions of businesses in the natural resources and financial sectors. Dave Jackson has been the Group Financial Controller at Resolute since April 2023 and is a Canadian Chartered Accountant who has spent the last twelve years working in the mining industry. The third and final settlement payment to the Government of Mali of approximately US$30 million will be made at the end of December 2024 from the Company's existing cash reserves. Resolute continues to engage with the Government of Mali with respect to the Protocol signed on the 18 November 2024, and in 2025 the Syama Mine will migrate to the newly decreed 2023 Mining Code, which includes an increase in corporate income tax from 25% to 30% and the removal of fuel duty exoneration. The government of Mali will hold a 20% preference share interest, and the remaining 80% interest in Syama will continue to be held by Resolute's subsidiary as an ordinary share interest.