Queensland Gold Hills Corp. announced the appointment of Mr. Simon Cohn to its Board of Directors. In his roles as a board advisor and director, Simon draws on a wealth of leadership, professionalism, passion and knowledge built up over 20 years' experience in the natural resources sector. Simon Cohn completed a Bachelor of Engineering in Mining at the University of Queensland, graduating in 1998 with Honours Class IIA. Upon graduation Simon commenced his mining career in underground hardrock operations at both Copper/Gold and Silver/Lead/Zinc mines. Simon then moved to open cut Silver/Lead Zinc operations at Century Mine before taking on the Production Planning Superintendent role at the same site. Following several years in this operation, Simon then joined several mining contractors in Metallurgical Coal Open Cut Operations. In 2005, Simon relocated to Laos to support operations at the Sepon Copper and Gold open cut mine providing
operations support and assisting in the development of national engineers and local contractors. Returning to Australia Simon joined MEC Mining remaining as Managing Director until 2017. MEC Mining is global mining consultancy where Simon remains a co-owner and is a non-executive director. During his time leading MEC, Simon also supported a large range of clients and projects in Australia and overseas. Simon's extensive operational knowledge saw him travel globally supporting and reviewing projects across a range of commodities in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Laos, Ghana, Siberia, Nicaragua, and Indonesia. In 2018 Simon identified an opportunity to create a project generator in Australia that accelerated not only project identification but maintained a core focus on project development and commercialisation. Simon worked closely with the remainder of the board in developing the MPX initiative. Simon drives project acquisition and development for MPX, preparing projects for commercialisation. MPX now holds a portfolio of projects at various stages of development working with a range of commodities. In 2019 Simon co-founded E79 Resources, successfully commercializing the company's Victorian gold assets with Canadian Securities Exchange listed Top Exploration
Corp in December 2020. Top exploration was renamed to E79 Resources. Queensland would also like to announce the resignation of Mr. Blair Way from the Board of Directors effective immediately.