Lee Hess

Lee Hess is Vice President, Exploration at Toogood Gold Corp. (TSXV: TGC | OTCQB: TGGCF), a Canadian junior explorer advancing two gold assets: the Table Mountain gold-silver project in Nevada and the district-scale Toogood Gold Project in Newfoundland. A structural geologist with more than 15 years of experience, he sets the company's exploration strategy and drives target generation for its maiden drill program. For resource investors, that makes him the technical lead on an undrilled epithermal project in Nevada's Great Basin, the gold province that supplies most United States production.

Hess joined Toogood in April 2026 from SSR Mining, where he was Senior Geologist, Global Project Generation, leading generative exploration (the search for new drill targets) and technical due diligence in Canada, the United States, and Argentina, with an emphasis on the Great Basin. In Nevada, he advanced greenfield concessions to drill-ready status and led multi-year mapping at the Marigold mine complex, a property that has produced more than five million ounces of gold. Earlier, he managed exploration on epithermal gold-silver systems in Argentina, including Chinchillas, Pirquitas, and Cortaderas, and on orogenic gold deposits (gold formed in deformed crustal rocks) in Saskatchewan's Seabee district. He holds an M.Sc. in structural geology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

His method treats exploration as a structural problem: map the faults, then target the bends, jogs, and intersections where mineral-laden fluids were most likely trapped. At Table Mountain, that approach produced the project's first 1:5,000-scale geological map and defined two priority drill corridors, Widowmaker and Pacifico, each extending more than five kilometres, with vein textures recording boiling — the process that deposits gold and silver in low-sulphidation epithermal systems, which form from hot fluids near the surface. Drill permitting is now underway for the property's first-ever drill program.

Hess is new to the VP role, and his public record to date runs through company news releases rather than independent publications. Following him means watching a geologist rank and refine drill targets in the months before a maiden drill program at Table Mountain, alongside district-scale work in Newfoundland — an early-stage story where the geological groundwork matters more than the headlines.