Titan Minerals welcomes new CEO

A geologist with more than 20-years’ experience in the mineral exploration industry, Melanie Leighton has been appointed the new chief executive of Perth-based Titan Minerals.

Ms Leighton is the founding director of consulting firm Leighton Geoservices and has held senior management and geological roles at Northwest Resources, Hot Chili and Harmony Gold.

She currently serves as a non-executive director for Great Boulder Resources and Industrial Minerals.

Outgoing chief executive Matthew Carr led the company for nine months and will stay on as a part-time executive director for the ensuring quarter to hand-over the role.

The company, formerly known as Minera Gold, has gone through a slew of changes since it went into administration and was delisted from the Australian Stock Exchange for not paying listing fees in 2016.

In 2017, the company restructured and recapitalised and it now has several exploration projects in Peru.

Titan chairman Peter Cook said they were delighted that Melanie has accepted the role as chief executive.

“Melanie has worked closely with our technical and corporate teams over the past six months and brings a wealth of relevant experience in this sector,” he said.

“Melanie is armed with the skills and background to assist Titan in navigating the next phase of exploration and development of its projects in southern Ecuador.”

“Our interim chief executive Matthew Carr has done an excellent job over the past nine months restructuring and refocussing our Ecuadorian operations.”

Ms Leighton said she was honoured to lead the company.

“After working in a consulting capacity with Titan Minerals for the past six months, I am thrilled and honoured to be stepping into the chief executive role,” she said.

“I am excited to work closely with the board and technical team to unlock the opportunity at the company’s large-scale gold-copper projects in Ecuador.”

Titan shares were up 5.71 per cent to trade at 7.4 cents.