New chairman for Meeka Gold

Junior explorer Meeka Gold Limited has appointed Paul Chapman as Non-Executive Chairman, succeeding Tim Moore in the position.

The gold and rare earths company has also elevated its Chief Executive Officer Tim Davidson to the position of Managing Director, in addition to CEO.

Both appointments are effective immediately.

Chapman is a chartered accountant and resources sector veteran. With more than 30 years’ experience in Australia and the United States, he has worked in gold, rare earths, nickel, uranium and oil and gas, to name a few.

The new chair has also been a founding shareholder and director of numerous ASX-listed companies, including Reliance Mining, Encounter Resources, Dreadnought Resources and Silver Lake Resources.

Notably, Chapman has skin in the game at Meeka, the company says he’s a long-term shareholder holding 5 million shares.

Davidson, a mining engineer, also brings extensive experience in the resources sector, both in Australia and overseas. The freshly minted MD has previously worked at BHP, Newmont and Silver Lake Resources and was instrumental in the acquisition of Meeka’s Murchison Gold Project from Silver Lake Resources.

Meeka, formerly Latitude Consolidated, is focusing on its flagship Murchison Gold Project that holds a 1.1 million-ounce JORC-compliant gold resource.

Located in the Murchison Goldfields about 800 kilometres northeast of Perth, the project has a combined landholding of some 343 square kilometres.

Meeka also owns the Circle Valley project, north of Esperance, where gold mineralisation has been identified in four locations and it controls the Cascade Rare Earths Project, west of Esperance.

Earlier this month Meeka announced that 52 of 85 holes drilled at Cascade returned shallow, broad, high-grade intersections up to 4029 parts per million of total rare earth oxides. More assay results from another 100 holes are expected imminently.

The news appears to have sparked heightened interest among its followers with shares currently at their highest level of the year.

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