Surefire Resources NL announced the appointment of Mr. Paul Burton as Managing Director (MD) effective 6 February 2023. Paul Burton is an experienced natural resources executive, CEO and Managing Director with a successful career spanning 30 years in exploration and mining for a range of different commodities having worked throughout Australia and internationally, and is one of the most experienced professionals in critical minerals projects notably vanadium and its products and battery minerals. Mr. Burton is a geologist and graduate from McGill University, Canada; a graduate of the Australian Institute of Directors and AusIMM.

He has managed successful corporate activities, mineral exploration, feasibility, FEED, and research study programs and in training and mentoring staff having previously held senior and executive roles at Anglo American, De Beers Ltd, Normandy Mining Ltd. and Minotaur Exploration Ltd. Mr. Burton was most recently at TNG Ltd, (now TiVan Ltd), where he was instrumental in resource discoveries and establishing a portfolio of quality exploration assets driving the company to a market capital value of over $100M and developing of the companies critical mineral Vanadium and battery mineral alternative energy strategies.