Rex Motton
CEO & Director | Crossroads Gold Corp. (TSXV: CRG) | 40-year exploration geologist in Australian gold
"Four decades of gold exploration and target generation, now leading Fiore-backed Crossroads Gold in Australia's historic Victorian goldfields"
Biography
Rex Motton is the CEO and a director of Crossroads Gold Corp. (TSXV: CRG), a Fiore Group–backed gold explorer advancing four projects across the historic goldfields of southeastern Australia. For resource investors tracking the Victorian gold revival — the belt that hosts the Fosterville mine and Southern Cross Gold's Sunday Creek discovery — Motton runs one of the newly listed juniors working that same ground. He is a professional exploration geologist who has spent roughly 40 years generating targets in high-grade gold systems.
Motton has worked in the mining business since 1986 and has served as a director of mining and exploration companies since 1988. His career spans Australia, South America, Central America, Jamaica and the Philippines, with a primary focus on Australian gold plus base-metals work in porphyry copper, VMS copper-lead-zinc and Mississippi Valley-type lead-zinc. He spent more than five years as Chief Operating Officer of Fosterville South Exploration (now Great Pacific Gold, TSXV: GPAC), where he was responsible for exploration strategy, target generation and drill program design across its Victorian projects. In early 2026 he led Crossroads Gold's go-public financing of about C$5.2 million, led by Red Cloud Securities, and its TSX Venture Exchange listing under the symbol CRG, then completed the acquisition of the historic Steiglitz Gold Project — more than 250,000 ounces of historical production, about 80 kilometers west of Melbourne — and the Rox-ex portfolio, which added the Pambula and Club Terrace projects.
His method is systematic target generation in proven high-grade belts rather than speculative ground. At Pambula in New South Wales, his team combined historical production records with a high-resolution LiDAR survey (laser terrain mapping that exposes old workings hidden under vegetation), identifying 122 adits — horizontal mine tunnel entrances — and 115 shafts, and then ran soil geochemistry (testing surface soil for trace gold) over more than 1,300 sample sites. That work returned gold-in-soil assays up to 24.6 g/t Au (grams of gold per tonne), outlined a district-scale hydrothermal gold system, and set up drilling at the goldfield for the first time in roughly 46 years. At Steiglitz, gold-antimony soil anomalies reaching 4.5 g/t Au are being ranked as drill targets within a trend the company compares to the orogenic systems of central Victoria.
Following Motton is effectively following a test of whether modern, data-driven exploration can find the next Fosterville-style orogenic gold system — gold deposited in structurally controlled veins during rock deformation. He lays out the case in interviews on channels such as Resource Talks and The Deep Dive, and Crossroads reports soil and drill results as they come. The record so far is early-stage: strong geochemistry, a funded Phase 1 program and Fiore Group backing, but no mineral resource estimate yet — so the thesis will be proven or disproven by the drill bit.
Videos (3)
Huge Exploration Upside | Rex Motton
- Top takeaway Argues Club Terrace is a regional-scale exploration play with major upside
- Notes Club Terrace was last mined in the 1890s with no modern exploration since
- Highlights the 30-kilometer fault zone hosts historic gold fields but has had no drilling
- Points out there is no stream sediment dataset covering the entire 30-kilometer structure
Club Terrace's 30-kilometer fault zone hosts multiple 1890s gold fields that have never been drilled or systematically sampled. Even baseline work - including a regional stream sediment dataset across the full 30 kilometers - remains uncompleted. Rex Motton positions Club Terrace as a regional exploration play rather than a single drill target.
Gold Price Pullback Doesn't Matter | Rex Motton
- Top takeaway He dismisses the recent gold pullback as immaterial, urging viewers to keep faith in gold and take a longer-term, bullish view rather than react to short-term corrections.
- He characterises current gold prices as still attractive enough to make money and describes the overall market picture as 'quite buoyant' as of August 2026.
The guest argues the recent gold pullback is a routine correction, not a structural problem for the metal. He advises investors to keep faith in gold itself and look past short-term price noise toward a longer horizon. He believes current gold prices, even after the recent slide, still let producers make money. His overall read on the gold market stays buoyant — pullbacks are a normal feature, not a warning sign.
Building Australias Next Gold Story - Crossroads Gold
- Top takeaway Rex Mottin, a Victorian-born exploration geologist with over 40 years of global experience, argues Stiglitz shares Fosterville's gold-arsenic-antimony epizonal signature, making it the second highest-grade gold field in Victoria.
- Mottin stresses that Stiglitz has had only five drill holes in the last ~20 years, leaving the ground largely untested by modern exploration techniques.
- He argues the Pheasant Creek ground is 'completely analogous' to Southern Cross Gold's Sunday Creek mineralization, citing 1890s handwritten reports of east-west high-grade quartz veins on the tenement.
- Mottin notes Pambula was previously drilled only briefly by Renison Goldfields and Homestake in the 1980s to a maximum depth of ~250 meters, despite 1890s shafts reaching 150 meters on high-grade chutes.
- He says he has spent more than a decade tracking the Pambula ground before it became available, and expresses eagerness to begin drilling the upcoming ~3,000-metre maiden program.
Crossroads Gold is a TSX Venture-listed junior explorer with four historic high-grade gold projects across southeastern Australia, backed by Fiore Group with a funded treasury. The Stieglitz project shares Fosterville's gold-arsenic-antimony signature and historically produced 250,000 oz at 38 g/t, yet only five drill holes in the past 20 years. Pheasant Creek spans 232 sq km directly adjacent to Southern Cross Gold's $2.5B Sunday Creek discovery, with historical reports of comparable east-west high-grade quartz veins. A 3,000-metre maiden drill program at Pambula (NSW) is planned alongside soil sampling and geophysics, funded by the company's $5M+ IPO treasury. Geologist Rex Mottin argues Victoria's historic goldfields with high-grade past production but minimal modern exploration still hold district-scale discovery potential.
Key Quotes
"Steiglitz exhibits the structural, geological and geochemical characteristics associated with significant orogenic gold systems."
— Crossroads Gold news release on closing the Steiglitz acquisition and TSXV listing, February 27, 2026
"At Crossroads, we are focused on unlocking meaningful gold discoveries in Australia, one of the world's premier jurisdictions."
— Crossroads Gold corporate website, CEO message
Key Works
Video interview with Motton on Crossroads' Victorian and New South Wales gold projects, grade potential and exploration plans.
Interview covering the Pheasant Creek, Steiglitz, Pambula and Club Terrace projects, Fiore Group backing and the upcoming Pambula drill program.
Company overview of the four-project Australian portfolio, the 2026 exploration program and the Fiore Group relationship.
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