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2026-11-06

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Full background report

Ed Cooney

Chief Operating Officer

Career chronology

  • Issuer 2025 annual report and selected V8 company roster dated 30 October 2026.: 29Metals Limited — Chief Operating Officer. 2025 Annual Report and ESG Report (2025 Annual Report pp. 16–17, Ed Cooney biography)

  • 2019–prior to 29Metals: EMR Capital — Operations Director, portfolio operations oversight, particularly 29Metals assets. 2025 Annual Report and ESG Report (2025 Annual Report pp. 16–17, Ed Cooney biography)

Education and qualifications

Education and professional credentials

As reported in issuer biography or annual report · issuer reported · low materiality

Mining engineering degree, UNSW; MBA from UCLA and National University of Singapore; AusIMM member.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Issuer-reported qualification claims were not independently checked against awarding bodies or professional registries.

Relevance: Relevant to role fit but not proof of work performance.

2025 Annual Report and ESG Report (2025 Annual Report pp. 16–17, Ed Cooney biography)

Industrial safety

Golden Grove contractor safety audit

2025–September 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

The 2025 annual report describes a spike in contractor incidents at Golden Grove and an external workplace safety audit that identified gaps in procurement integration, standardised assessments and system-level governance. It reports a site-wide action plan and a 2026 completion target. The 2026 half-year report says group total recordable injury frequency increased from 6.3 to 8.0 per million hours year-on-year; the September quarterly figure was 7.9.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The CEO or COO held company-wide or operations leadership responsibilities during the period; individual responsibility for particular events or audit findings is not established.

Relevance: Relevant to operational risk and the documented implementation of safety controls.

2025 Annual Report and ESG Report (p. 38, Improving contractor safety management at Golden Grove); Appendix 4D and Half-Year Financial Report 2026 (p. 5, Key safety results); September 2026 Quarterly Report (p. 1, Safety and Sustainability)

Environmental record

Capricorn Copper environment and regulatory status

2023–2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

The 2025 annual report says Capricorn Copper remained suspended after the March 2024 extreme-weather event and had reduced water inventory by more than 1.5 GL by end-2025. It reports one 2025 creek incident after an electrical fault stopped a sump pump, briefly elevating copper levels; water was contained within 24 hours. It says the March 2023-related prosecution was dismissed after DETSI accepted enforceable undertakings in March 2026.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. For the CEO/COO, the corporate or site operations remit overlaps the event, but individual causation is not established. For other roles, the event is company context only.

Relevance: Relevant to environmental controls, operating risk and restart readiness; no individual fault is inferred.

2025 Annual Report and ESG Report (2025 Annual Report, Capricorn Copper operations and environment reporting, pp. 42–49)

Suitability for the current role

Documented role scope and role fit

Current role at cutoff · analyst inference · low materiality

Analyst inference: the documented title places Ed Cooney in a function relevant to Australian producer and brownfield developer with the Golden Grove polymetallic mine, suspended Capricorn Copper operation and its exploration interests. The reviewed material does not establish individual delivery or causal contribution; suitability beyond title alignment remains unassessed. Issuer material documents relevant prior experience: Operations Director, portfolio operations oversight, particularly 29Metals assets. This supports role relevance only and does not prove an outcome in this role.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is a limited role-scope inference from the issuer-documented position; it is not an outcome or personal-performance claim.

Relevance: The role is pertinent to oversight or execution of the company’s disclosed business; evidence on individual effectiveness is limited.

2025 Annual Report and ESG Report (2025 Annual Report pp. 16–17, Ed Cooney biography)

Evidence gaps

  • Education, professional memberships and credentials require person-specific primary or independent verification where not detailed in the cited issuer source.

  • Individual attribution for company outcomes was not established; company results must not be read as personal achievements.

  • The previous report cited an environmental authority for a different mine; the independent current status of Capricorn Copper enforcement orders and compliance with the undertakings is unresolved.

  • Prior-employer outcomes, exact chronology and credentials have not been independently corroborated.

  • The current-session audit did not conduct comprehensive person-specific court, regulatory, fraud and prior-employer searches; no clearance is implied.