SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: Surefire Resources NL (ASX:SRN) announced the appointment of Mr Jan De Jager as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective as of today.

Jan is a highly experienced mining executive with a proven track record in listed international mining companies. He has more than 25 years’ experience across operational, finance, commercial, strategy, and business development roles and has held senior leadership roles in AVZ Minerals, Covalent Lithium; Roy Hill and Xstrata Nickel in Australia. He has also worked at Sasol Mining in South Africa where he was responsible for private equity deals and business restructuring.

In his career, Jan gained extensive experience in various greenfield and brownfield projects from scoping stage into production where he was intimately involved with deal structuring and project financing.

Vladimir Nikolaenko, Surefire’s Executive Chairman, said, “The Board and I are delighted with the appointment of Mr De Jager and consider him to be a valuable addition to the Surefire team. He will greatly assist in aggressively progressing and advancing the Company’s key vanadium projects at Victory Bore and Unaly Hill, Perenjori Iron Ore, its Yidby Gold discovery, and Kooline Silver-Lead project.”

Commenting on his appointment, Jan said, “It is a privilege to be entrusted to lead Surefire as its next CEO and I look forward to the opportunity of driving the progression of Surefire to its full value and the realization of substantial increase in value to its stakeholders from all of the Company’s projects, particularly from its world-class vanadium deposit during a period where the world seriously needs sustainable production of critical minerals more than ever before.”