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Southern Cross Gold Appoints Joseph Seppelt as Head of Technology & Processing
Vancouver, British Columbia and Melbourne, Australia--(Newsfile Corp. - April 10, 2026) - South...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Southern Cross Gold Appoints Joseph Seppelt as Head of Technology & ProcessingVancouver, British Columbia and Melbourne, Australia--(Newsfile Corp. - April 10, 2026) - Southern Cross Gold Consolidated Ltd (TSX: SXGC) (ASX: SX2) (OTCQX: SXGCF) (FSE: MV3) (\"SXGC\", \"SX2\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Joseph (Joe) Seppelt as the Company's Head of Technology & Processing, effective immediately. Mr. Seppelt is an accomplished mineral processing engineer and leader with extensive experience commissioning and operating some of Australia's most technically demanding concentrators. His appointment marks a significant step in advancing the processing and smelting strategy for the Sunday Creek Gold-Antimony Project.As Head of Technology & Processing and a senior member of SXGC's executive leadership team, Mr. Seppelt will lead the Company's metallurgical testwork programs, processing flowsheet development, and smelting and refining strategy. He will oversee all technical and processing functions across the Sunday Creek project, reporting to the President & CEO.Mr. Seppelt brings nearly two decades of progressive leadership in mineral processing, with a career spanning greenfield commissioning through to large-scale operational optimisation at BHP Carrapateena, Newcrest's Cadia Valley Operations, Hillgrove Resources' Kanmantoo Copper, and BHP Olympic Dam. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical, Hon.) from the University of Adelaide and is an accredited Six Sigma Black Belt, having undertaken study tours in Japan in Lean manufacturing and Theory of Constraints.Most recently, Mr. Seppelt served as Acting General Manager at BHP Carrapateena, holding full-site accountability for surface and underground operations during a critical phase of expansion. As Processing Manager at Carrapateena from 2018 to 2025, he led the successful commissioning and ramp-up of the concentrator to nameplate capacity, and delivered the plant expansion from 4 Mtpa to 7 Mtpa — a multi-year program involving new regrind mills, cleaner circuit redesign, tailings dam capacity extension and installation of the HydroFloat coarse particle recovery circuit. He also led the 12Mtpa surface expansion study. His tenure also included a safety transformation that reduced the site's Total Recordable Injur...