# Cheryl Low

Environment Manager

## Career chronology

- **Current role at evidence cutoff; start date not established in reviewed source: Santana Minerals Limited** — Environment Manager. [Our team](<https://www.santanaminerals.com/our-team>) (Management/director profile; current role)

## Environmental record

### EPA panel requested a site-specific hazardous-installations risk assessment [smi_cheryl_low_environmental_rfi_hazardous_installations]

May–June 2026 · documented · medium materiality

The EPA request dated 26 May 2026 was addressed to Matakanui Gold c/o Cheryl Low and sought a site-specific assessment of environmental risks from hazardous installations, including natural hazards. The regulator’s reports page records that Matakanui Gold requested an extension and filed a response on 22 June. This is a technical information request in a live consent review, not an enforcement action or a finding that Low or the applicant breached environmental law.

**Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. The official letter names Low as the applicant contact; it establishes her interface role, not authorship of the requested technical assessment or personal responsibility for any hazard.

**Relevance:** Directly relevant to environmental permitting and management of project-risk questions; sufficiency remained for the panel to assess.

[Request for information from Matakanui Gold Limited regarding the Bendigo-Ophir Gold Project (RFI 6)](<https://www.fasttrack.govt.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/27528/RFI-6-Letter.pdf>) (pp. 1–2, recipient, question and due date); [Bendigo-Ophir Gold Project reports and advice](<https://www.fasttrack.govt.nz/projects/bendigoophir-gold-project/reports-and-advice>) (RFI 6 applicant response listing, 22 June 2026)

## Suitability for the current role

### Role alignment; record remains incomplete [smi_cheryl_low_role_fit]

Evidence cutoff 2026-10-09 · analyst inference · low materiality

The reviewed issuer profile confirms this current role. The short public profile supports a preliminary role-alignment observation only; independent evidence on delivered outcomes and full tenure is insufficient for a broader performance judgment.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. This is an analyst assessment of the documented role and experience, not a claim of responsibility for a company outcome.

**Relevance:** Role alignment matters to execution in the current position, but the reviewed evidence does not establish full delivery or control outcomes.

[Our team](<https://www.santanaminerals.com/our-team>) (Executive or management profile: Cheryl Low; current role and available career detail)

## Evidence gaps

- Full dated employment chronology, independently verified education and concurrent board interests were not established from the opened sources.

- The grouped adverse-topic search was preliminary; person-specific regulator, court, safety, environmental, insolvency, fraud and governance checks remain incomplete.
