Liberty Metals: Untested Ground on a 9Moz Shear Beside a A$16B Miner

Managing Director of Alicanto Minerals, leading exploration across the Arakaka and Ianna projects in the Northwest Mining District. Guyanese permitting, the GGMC, community relations and wet-season logistics are not skills acquired from Perth.

A US$10 million earn-in signed with Barrick Gold in March 2016 over Arakaka. Barrick had spent US$7.1 million before withdrawing in 2018. A further earn-in followed with Nordgold in 2019. His framing at the time: the work was funded without diluting shareholders.

Founded Many Peaks Minerals in 2021, listed 2022, and delivered a maiden resource at Ouarigue in April 2026 of 26.7Mt at 1.54 g/t for 1.32Moz, 83% Measured and Indicated, at a reported discovery cost near A$11.25 an ounce. Same Birimian greenstone, other side of the Atlantic.

Director of Exore Resources, acquired by Perseus Mining by scheme of arrangement in 2020 after rapid resource growth at Bagoe in northern Cote d’Ivoire.

IAMGOLD operated Rosebel in Suriname throughout his tenure, a mine producing around 337,000 ounces a year from the same Guiana Shield greenstone that underlies Liberty’s ground in Guyana. Very few people have run a producing gold mine on this shield. He is one of them.

Ten years as President and CEO of IAMGOLD, listed on both the TSX and NYSE, with operating mines at Rosebel in Suriname, Essakane in Burkina Faso, Westwood in Canada and an interest in Sadiola in Mali, plus development projects across North America, South America and West Africa.

Essakane in Burkina Faso sits in the West African Birimian greenstone that formed a single belt with the Guiana Shield before the Atlantic opened. Together with Rosebel, his operating experience spans both halves of the terrane Liberty is exploring.

Under his leadership Rosebel advanced the adjacent Saramacca discovery from resource to reserve within a year, adding an extra five years of mine life and lifting Saramacca’s Measured and Indicated resources by 72% to 1.2 million ounces.

Awarded the Order of the Yellow Star by Suriname in 2018 and L’Officier de l’Ordre National by Burkina Faso in 2011. In jurisdictions where permitting and community relations decide project timelines, that standing is not decorative.

Forty granted medium-scale permits across ~180km² in two consolidated blocks. Guyanese permits issue in 1 to 5km² parcels held by private citizens, so a package this size needed agreement across dozens of holders and cannot be assembled quickly.

The district’s largest deposit was found by soil geochemistry. A 2020 soil program outlined the 6km anomaly that became Oko West. Liberty’s 5,000-sample program is the same technique on the same trend.

Peer drilling returned 14.3m at 8.2 g/t from 433m downhole, with resource zones open below 350m vertical. Historic mining in the district stopped at 70 to 100m. The shear-hosted style continues far below anything tested by hand.

The August 2026 board appointment brings in a director who has twice signed majors, Barrick and Nordgold, onto Guyanese gold ground.

Oko North shares a boundary with ground formerly held by G2 and now owned by GMIN, close to the New Oko Discovery. The shear corridor is mapped over 15km-plus and peer work indicates the architecture continues north.

Independent georeferencing of public satellite imagery reports ~5.3km of artisanal disturbance in the northern block, continuing into GMIN ground. Linear workings over that strike suit a structural control better than random alluvial traps.

The southern block covers what Liberty interprets as the southern continuation of the trend, and may capture more granite-greenstone contact than the northern block.