# Gareth Fleming Project Director ## Career chronology - **Current role at roster date; start date not independently established in reviewed sources: Northern Minerals Limited** — Project Director. [Half-Year Financial Report to 31 December 2024]() (leadership biography/role) - **Past employment named by issuer; exact dates not given: Hastings Technology Metals; BCI Minerals; Worley; Macmahon** — Civil engineer with large-scale mining/construction/engineering project experience. [Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2025]() (Leadership, p. 9, lines 400–405) ## Education and qualifications ### Civil engineering qualification disclosed [gareth_fleming_education] Current at 2025 report · issuer reported · medium materiality NTU identifies Gareth Fleming as a qualified civil engineer and describes over 20 years of international mining, construction and engineering experience, including Hastings Technology Metals, BCI Minerals, Worley and Macmahon. No institution or year was provided, and the credential was not independently verified. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. The issuer biography attributes the qualification and experience to Mr Fleming. **Relevance:** Directly relevant to project construction leadership; exact credential details remain unavailable. [Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2025]() (Leadership, p. 9, lines 400–405) ## Contributions and company outcomes ### Browns Range DFS completed during Project Director tenure [gareth_dfs_completed] FY2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality Northern Minerals reported completion and release of the Browns Range Definitive Feasibility Study in September 2025. Fleming was appointed Project Director in September 2024. The company report does not isolate his individual contribution; completion of a study is not construction, commercial production or a positive FID. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Project Director overlapped with this company milestone, but the report does not establish a specific individual contribution or degree of responsibility. **Relevance:** Relevant company delivery evidence for this executive’s project leadership remit; limited by company-only attribution. [Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2025]() (Operational Review and DFS progress, pp. 6–9; Leadership, p. 9) ## Business failures and setbacks ### Browns Range FID target missed during project-director tenure [gareth_fid_slip] Target date 2026-09-30 · issuer reported · low materiality NTU stated on 30 September 2026 that the previously targeted Browns Range final investment decision by that date would not occur because project-funding arrangements and negotiations remained ongoing. Fleming was Project Director. The disclosure does not attribute the funding delay to his remit or performance. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Project delivery role overlapped with the target period, but funding responsibility and individual causation are not established. **Relevance:** Relevant to project-delivery oversight; not evidence of personal failure. [2026 Annual Financial Statements, External Auditor Arrangements and FID Update]() (FID Timing, page 1, lines 26–31) ## Suitability for the current role ### Current-role fit is provisional [gareth_fleming_rolefit] 2026-09-26 · analyst inference · low materiality The dated disclosures reviewed establish Gareth Fleming’s current Project Director position and the relevant experience described in the cited sources. They do not establish a complete independent career chronology or measured contribution to NTU outcomes. This limits role-fit assessment; the conclusion is provisional. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. This is an analyst inference from disclosed role scope and experience, not a finding about personal performance. **Relevance:** Relevant to assessing role coverage, but insufficient on its own to establish capability or outcomes. [Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2025]() (KMP list, pp. 20–21); [About Us and leadership biographies]() (Board or Executive biography, relevant named section) ## Evidence gaps - No sufficiently corroborated, dated biography was located in the reviewed records for Gareth Fleming; prior employers, education, qualifications, concurrent directorships and exact role commencement remain gaps. - Person-specific failure, fraud, legal, safety, environmental and governance coverage for Gareth Fleming is incomplete; open-web work documented here is not an exhaustive criminal, sanctions, litigation, reference or credential check. - No independent public credential verification or complete dated chronology for Gareth Fleming was established; private and unindexed employment records were not available. - No exhaustive person-level court, sanctions, criminal, regulator, safety or environmental record check was performed for Gareth Fleming; name-based searches can miss same-name and non-indexed records.