Marathon Gold Corporation announced certain changes to the Company?s senior management team. Mr. Gil Lawson will be joining Marathon in the role of Chief Operating Officer, effective October 1, 2023. Mr. Lawson is an experienced mining professional with over 36 years of experience in project development, mine planning, and mine management.

Between 1986 and 2020 he held a number of increasingly senior technical and leadership roles at Placer Dome Inc., De Beers Canada, and Goldcorp Inc., including the management of the Musslewhite, Campbell and Snap Lake Mines. Between 2017 and 2020 he served as Chief Operating Officer of TMAC Resources and, most recently, as interim General Manager at the Tasiast Mine in Mauritania for Kinross Gold Corporation. Mr. Lawson will be based at Marathon?s project office in Grand Falls Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Mr. Lawson will be replacing Mr. Tim Williams, Chief Operating Officer of Marathon since 2020, who is returning to his native Australia for family reasons. Mr. Williams will continue to provide consulting support to Marathon in the areas of mining operations, mine plan development, and ore control planning going forward. Concurrently, Mr. Paolo Toscano has been promoted to the new role of Senior Vice President, Projects, Engineering and Construction.