---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-24-008862"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FTCO"
cik: "0001828377"
company_name: "Fortitude Gold Corp"
filed_at: "2024-06-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T06:53:52.375016+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Fortitude Gold enters employment agreements with Allan Turner ($230K) and Janet Turner ($220K)

## Summary
- Allan Turner appointed VP of Exploration; annual salary $230,000, one-year term starting June 1, 2024.
- Janet Turner employment agreement provides $220,000 annual salary, also one-year term.
- Both agreements auto-renew annually unless either party gives 60-day non-renewal notice.
- Agreements include change-in-control severance benefits: 24 months base salary plus bonus, full equity vesting, and welfare benefit continuation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-24-008862
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FTCO
- cik: 0001828377
- company_name: Fortitude Gold Corp
- filed_at: 2024-06-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1828377/000155837024008862/0001558370-24-008862-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1828377/000155837024008862/ftco-20240603x8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-24-008862.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Allan Turner was appointed as VP of Exploration at Fortitude Gold Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: VP of Exploration
  source text: Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. On June 1, 2024, the Company entered into employment agreements with the persons shown below.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1828377/000155837024008862/0001558370-24-008862-index.htm
- Executive change
  Janet Turner was appointed as other_named_officer at Fortitude Gold Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  source text: Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. On June 1, 2024, the Company entered into employment agreements with the persons shown below.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1828377/000155837024008862/0001558370-24-008862-index.htm

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