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Astral Resources NL

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People, delivery and responsibility

Management background checks

Evidence through 2026-10-31

Research assessment

Executive team

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AAR’s six-person roster combines operations, project development, finance, geology and exploration experience. Two missed company cleansing notices led to requests for court relief in 2023 and 2024. The cited judgment mirrors could not be reopened during this refresh, so precise individual responsibility and detailed reasoning are not independently reverified. Company outcomes show resource growth and financing progress, but no operating production and a revised Mandilla DFS target; most personal contributions and prior-career dates remain unverified.

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Material summary

Individual involvement and employer context shown separately

Marc Ducler

Managing Director

Current
Full background report for Marc Ducler
Company SuccessIssuer Reported · Medium materiality

AAR resource growth, project acquisition and capital raised

During Ducler’s tenure as Managing Director, AAR completed the acquisition of Maximus/Spargoville in 2025; FY2026 reporting showed Mandilla at 54 Mt for 1.74 Moz, group resources of 2.07 Moz, approximately 84 km drilled and a $65 million equity raising. These are reported company outcomes; the sources do not assign individual causation or establish operating production. The September 2026 quarterly report recorded A$59 million cash at 30 September, down from A$65 million at 30 June, and drilling progress; these are company-reported figures rather than an individually attributed cash outcome.

Role overlaps event; causation unproven · The MD role overlapped the outcomes; no source isolates Ducler’s contribution to the acquisition, resource estimates or financing.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2025 · Directors’ report and Maximus takeover chronology, pp. 36–37
Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 · Review of Operations, pp. 4–5
Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – September 2026 · Highlights, pp. 1–2; cash as at 30 September 2026
Company SuccessIssuer Reported · Medium materiality

Egan Street advanced Rothsay to DFS/approval and accepted a producer takeover

Silver Lake’s 2019 offer announcement described Egan Street’s Rothsay project as having a 454 koz resource and 200 koz reserve, an updated DFS confirming technical viability and a mining proposal approved in June 2019. The offer was 28.9% above the prior close. Ducler was Egan Street’s Managing Director and publicly explained the company’s financing/execution-risk rationale; the project was not yet in production at the time. No source establishes that he alone caused the study, permit, offer or shareholder outcome.

Role overlaps event; causation unproven · The corporate role and project period overlap; no individual delivery attribution beyond his documented MD role and public explanation of the transaction was located.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 · Information on Directors, p. 45
Silver Lake to acquire EganStreet Resources · Transaction terms and Rothsay status, pp. 1–3
FailureIssuer Reported · Medium materiality

Mandilla DFS timing moved beyond the original target

Astral’s 28 October 2025 appointment announcement targeted DFS completion by mid-2026, FID in the September 2026 quarter and first production by end-2027. The June 2026 quarterly report moved DFS completion to Q1 2027 and said FID was expected immediately thereafter; it noted heritage-clearance surveys had slowed and could delay final site layouts. This is a missed/revised company milestone, not evidence of an individual failure or a failed project. The 29 October 2026 September-quarter report continued to target Q1 2027 for the DFS and an FID thereafter; site layouts were complete and permit applications were still planned.

Role overlaps event; causation unproven · Managing Director overlaps the current project period. The issuer identifies permitting/heritage work as a timing dependency; no source attributes the delay to this individual.

Key Appointments to Advance Mandilla Gold Project Towards Development and Operations · Highlights and project timetable, p. 1; first-production target, p. 1
Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – June 2026 Quarter · June-quarter update: DFS Q1 2027, FID immediately after; heritage-survey timing, June 2026 quarter
Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – September 2026 · Highlights and Definitive Feasibility Study, pp. 1–2 and 16–17
GovernanceDocumented · Medium materiality

Repeated AAR cleansing-notice lapses occurred during Ducler’s MD tenure

Astral requested trading halts after it failed to lodge cleansing notices following share issues in May 2023 and April 2024. The 2023 halt request was signed by Company Secretary Brendon Morton and a subsequent issuer announcement attached court orders granting relief. The 2024 halt request describes another inadvertent failure and application for relief. These events occurred during Ducler’s managing-director tenure. The judgment mirrors cited by the earlier report timed out in the current refresh; individual responsibility and detailed court reasoning were not independently reverified.

Role overlaps event; causation unproven · Ducler’s role overlaps the events; reviewed issuer announcements do not establish that he caused either omission.

Astral Resources NL – Request for Trading Halt, 7 July 2023 · Trading halt request, p. 2, signed by Brendon Morton
Court Orders Granted · Issuer announcement and attached orders, pp. 1–2
Evidence gaps · 6
  • Exact dates and specific titles for Ducler’s earlier operational roles are not disclosed in the reviewed annual report.
  • The precise end date of the Maximus board appointment was not located; the public record reviewed ties it to the takeover and subsidiary integration.
  • No independent degree verification, referee check, complete career record or exhaustive criminal, sanctions, regulator or court-record check was performed.
  • A search returned material about unrelated people with the surname Ducler; it was excluded because the identity, country and employer did not match Astral’s Managing Director.
  • Earlier named-person and topic search records were inherited from the 10 October report and were not independently reconstructed. The 31 October search was broad; complete employer-by-employer and topic-by-topic verification remains incomplete.
  • Full judgment texts for the 2023 and 2024 Astral cleansing-notice cases could not be reopened in this refresh; detailed findings about individual responsibility and the 2024 reasoning remain unverified here.

Full background report

Marc Ducler

Managing Director

Career chronology

Education and qualifications

Education and qualification

As reported in FY2026 annual report · issuer reported · low materiality

Astral reports a BSc in Metallurgy from the Western Australian School of Mines (WASM). The awarding record was not independently checked.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Qualification is issuer-reported and not independently verified against the awarding institution.

Relevance: Relevant technical background, but not evidence of project performance.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Information on Directors, p. 45)

Contributions and company outcomes

AAR resource growth, project acquisition and capital raised

2019–2026; acquisition in 2025 and reporting through 29 October 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

During Ducler’s tenure as Managing Director, AAR completed the acquisition of Maximus/Spargoville in 2025; FY2026 reporting showed Mandilla at 54 Mt for 1.74 Moz, group resources of 2.07 Moz, approximately 84 km drilled and a $65 million equity raising. These are reported company outcomes; the sources do not assign individual causation or establish operating production. The September 2026 quarterly report recorded A$59 million cash at 30 September, down from A$65 million at 30 June, and drilling progress; these are company-reported figures rather than an individually attributed cash outcome.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The MD role overlapped the outcomes; no source isolates Ducler’s contribution to the acquisition, resource estimates or financing.

Relevance: Relevant company-building and capital-allocation context for a developer, with execution still ahead.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2025 (Directors’ report and Maximus takeover chronology, pp. 36–37); Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Review of Operations, pp. 4–5); Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Placement, p. 33); Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – September 2026 (Highlights, pp. 1–2; cash as at 30 September 2026)

Egan Street advanced Rothsay to DFS/approval and accepted a producer takeover

Egan Street tenure, ending at takeover in 2019 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Silver Lake’s 2019 offer announcement described Egan Street’s Rothsay project as having a 454 koz resource and 200 koz reserve, an updated DFS confirming technical viability and a mining proposal approved in June 2019. The offer was 28.9% above the prior close. Ducler was Egan Street’s Managing Director and publicly explained the company’s financing/execution-risk rationale; the project was not yet in production at the time. No source establishes that he alone caused the study, permit, offer or shareholder outcome.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The corporate role and project period overlap; no individual delivery attribution beyond his documented MD role and public explanation of the transaction was located.

Relevance: A relevant development/transaction outcome; it should not be counted as a personally delivered operating mine.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Information on Directors, p. 45); Silver Lake to acquire EganStreet Resources (Transaction terms and Rothsay status, pp. 1–3)

Business failures and setbacks

Mandilla DFS timing moved beyond the original target

October 2025 to 29 October 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Astral’s 28 October 2025 appointment announcement targeted DFS completion by mid-2026, FID in the September 2026 quarter and first production by end-2027. The June 2026 quarterly report moved DFS completion to Q1 2027 and said FID was expected immediately thereafter; it noted heritage-clearance surveys had slowed and could delay final site layouts. This is a missed/revised company milestone, not evidence of an individual failure or a failed project. The 29 October 2026 September-quarter report continued to target Q1 2027 for the DFS and an FID thereafter; site layouts were complete and permit applications were still planned.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Managing Director overlaps the current project period. The issuer identifies permitting/heritage work as a timing dependency; no source attributes the delay to this individual.

Relevance: Execution timing matters to a pre-production gold developer, but the evidence supports a project-level schedule change only.

Key Appointments to Advance Mandilla Gold Project Towards Development and Operations (Highlights and project timetable, p. 1; first-production target, p. 1); Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – June 2026 Quarter (June-quarter update: DFS Q1 2027, FID immediately after; heritage-survey timing, June 2026 quarter); Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – September 2026 (Highlights and Definitive Feasibility Study, pp. 1–2 and 16–17)

Environmental record

Issuer-reported environmental status

At 25 September 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

Astral’s FY2026 annual report says that, as at the report date, the Group was not aware of any significant breaches of applicable environmental requirements. This is an issuer statement about the company, not an independent regulator check or a finding about this person; the report also identifies environmental, heritage and native-title risks.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Managing Director was part of the current management roster, but the annual report does not attribute environmental compliance decisions to this individual.

Relevance: Environmental compliance is relevant to project development and approvals; the issuer statement does not establish a clean personal or company record.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Environmental Regulation, p. 44; Environmental and Heritage, Native Title and Community Risks, pp. 30–31)

Governance and interests

Repeated AAR cleansing-notice lapses occurred during Ducler’s MD tenure

July 2023 and July 2024 court decisions · documented · medium materiality

Astral requested trading halts after it failed to lodge cleansing notices following share issues in May 2023 and April 2024. The 2023 halt request was signed by Company Secretary Brendon Morton and a subsequent issuer announcement attached court orders granting relief. The 2024 halt request describes another inadvertent failure and application for relief. These events occurred during Ducler’s managing-director tenure. The judgment mirrors cited by the earlier report timed out in the current refresh; individual responsibility and detailed court reasoning were not independently reverified.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Ducler’s role overlaps the events; reviewed issuer announcements do not establish that he caused either omission.

Relevance: Material governance context for the MD role, with direct responsibility distinguished from oversight and no personal wrongdoing finding.

Astral Resources NL – Request for Trading Halt, 7 July 2023 (Trading halt request, p. 2, signed by Brendon Morton); Court Orders Granted (Issuer announcement and attached orders, pp. 1–2); Astral Resources NL – Request for Trading Halt, 28 June 2024 (Trading halt request, p. 1)

Suitability for the current role

Relevant operational and development experience

Career to cutoff · analyst inference · medium materiality

The FY2026 annual report identifies Ducler as Astral Managing Director since 23 December 2019, with 20 years in senior operational management at Gold Fields, BHP, Fortescue, Mineral Resources and Roy Hill, and a prior Managing Director role at Egan Street. BSc Metallurgy (WASM) is issuer-reported. Analyst inference: this background is relevant to leading a Western Australian gold developer, but does not establish individual execution quality.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is a role-fit inference from disclosed positions and qualification, not a performance or credential-verification finding.

Relevance: Relevant operational and project-development experience for an advanced explorer moving toward study, approvals and financing.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Information on Directors, p. 45; qualification, appointment and experience)

Short-term Maximus board appointment during acquisition

February–May 2025 takeover period · analyst inference · low materiality

AAR’s FY2025 annual report records that Astral appointed Ducler and Mark Connelly to Maximus’s board on 25 February 2025 as the takeover became unconditional. AAR completed the acquisition on 2 May 2025; Maximus was removed from the ASX official list on 10 April. The public materials reviewed do not establish the precise end date of Ducler’s subsidiary/director appointment, so it is treated as a takeover-related board role rather than an ongoing external directorship.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. AAR’s annual report directly records the appointment; the subsequent company acquisition/delisting is documented, while exact cessation date is not.

Relevance: Relevant to career chronology and board-interest reconciliation; no adverse conduct is alleged.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2025 (Maximus Resources takeover, p. 36); Maximus Resources – Removal from Official List (Removal from Official List, 10 April 2025)

Evidence gaps

  • Exact dates and specific titles for Ducler’s earlier operational roles are not disclosed in the reviewed annual report.

  • The precise end date of the Maximus board appointment was not located; the public record reviewed ties it to the takeover and subsidiary integration.

  • No independent degree verification, referee check, complete career record or exhaustive criminal, sanctions, regulator or court-record check was performed.

  • A search returned material about unrelated people with the surname Ducler; it was excluded because the identity, country and employer did not match Astral’s Managing Director.

  • Earlier named-person and topic search records were inherited from the 10 October report and were not independently reconstructed. The 31 October search was broad; complete employer-by-employer and topic-by-topic verification remains incomplete.

  • Full judgment texts for the 2023 and 2024 Astral cleansing-notice cases could not be reopened in this refresh; detailed findings about individual responsibility and the 2024 reasoning remain unverified here.

Brendon Morton

Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary

Current
Full background report for Brendon Morton
GovernanceIssuer Reported · High materiality

Two Astral cleansing-notice failures prompted court applications

Astral’s July 2023 and June 2024 trading-halt requests, signed by Company Secretary Brendon Morton, say the company missed cleansing notices after share issues. The 2023 request says 9 May, while its later issuer release and attached court orders identify the issue as 8 May; the 2023 court granted relief. The 2024 request says shares were issued on 9 April and describes the failure as inadvertent. The prior report attributed detailed actions to Morton using two judgment mirrors; both mirrors timed out during this refresh, so those details and 2024 court reasoning could not be independently reverified. The reviewed halt requests establish company-level control failures and his secretarial role, not individual misconduct or fraud.

Role overlaps event; causation unproven · Morton signed the halt requests in his capacity as Company Secretary. The issuer notices reviewed do not establish his individual responsibility for either failure; court reasons could not be reopened in this refresh.

Astral Resources NL – Request for Trading Halt, 7 July 2023 · Trading halt request p. 2 and Morton signature
Court Orders Granted · Issuer announcement p. 1 and attached court orders pp. 2–3
Astral Resources NL – Request for Trading Halt, 28 June 2024 · Trading halt request and Morton signature p. 1
Company SuccessIssuer Reported · Medium materiality

AAR raised capital to fund development work

AAR reported a $65 million equity raising during FY2026 and $65.1 million cash at 30 June 2026. Morton was CFO during the period, but no source identifies his individual contribution to the raising or its terms. The funding does not constitute financing of construction or proof of project economics.

Role overlaps event; causation unproven · The CFO role overlapped the raising; individual responsibility or causal contribution was not documented in the sources reviewed.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 · Review of Operations, p. 4; Placement, p. 33; Financial Position, p. 47
Evidence gaps · 6
  • The employer-by-employer dates and outcomes across Morton’s prior listed and unlisted company roles are not available in the reviewed material.
  • The two court matters were resolved by relief orders; this review did not find an exhaustive personal litigation, ASIC enforcement, criminal-record or sanctions search.
  • Professional membership and degree claims were not independently checked.
  • The 2024 court text says the adopted checklist was not strictly complied with on six earlier issues; the precise checklist and subsequent control testing are not publicly documented in the sources reviewed.
  • Earlier named-person and topic search records were inherited from the 10 October report and were not independently reconstructed. The 31 October search was broad; complete employer-by-employer and topic-by-topic verification remains incomplete.
  • Full judgment texts for the 2023 and 2024 Astral cleansing-notice cases could not be reopened in this refresh; detailed findings about individual responsibility and the 2024 reasoning remain unverified here.

Full background report

Brendon Morton

Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary

Career chronology

Education and qualifications

Accounting and governance qualifications

As reported by AAR and FZR · issuer reported · low materiality

AAR and Fitzroy River report a Bachelor of Business, ICAA membership and GIA membership. The reports do not independently verify the degree or current standing in either professional body.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Credentials are issuer-reported; no direct professional-register or awarding-institution verification was completed.

Relevance: Relevant to finance and company-secretarial responsibilities.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Company Secretary, p. 47); Fitzroy River Corporation Ltd Annual Report 2025 (Directors’ report, p. 9)

Contributions and company outcomes

AAR raised capital to fund development work

FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

AAR reported a $65 million equity raising during FY2026 and $65.1 million cash at 30 June 2026. Morton was CFO during the period, but no source identifies his individual contribution to the raising or its terms. The funding does not constitute financing of construction or proof of project economics.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The CFO role overlapped the raising; individual responsibility or causal contribution was not documented in the sources reviewed.

Relevance: Relevant to finance leadership and the funding runway for a pre-production project, with material execution risk still outstanding.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Review of Operations, p. 4; Placement, p. 33; Financial Position, p. 47)

Business failures and setbacks

Mandilla DFS timing moved beyond the original target

October 2025 to July–September 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

Astral’s 28 October 2025 appointment announcement targeted DFS completion by mid-2026, FID in the September 2026 quarter and first production by end-2027. The June 2026 quarterly report moved DFS completion to Q1 2027 and said FID was expected immediately thereafter; it noted heritage-clearance surveys had slowed and could delay final site layouts. This is a missed/revised company milestone, not evidence of an individual failure or a failed project.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. CFO and Company Secretary overlaps the current project period. The issuer identifies permitting/heritage work as a timing dependency; no source attributes the delay to this individual.

Relevance: Execution timing matters to a pre-production gold developer, but the evidence supports a project-level schedule change only.

Key Appointments to Advance Mandilla Gold Project Towards Development and Operations (Highlights and project timetable, p. 1; first-production target, p. 1); Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – June 2026 Quarter (June-quarter update: DFS Q1 2027, FID immediately after; heritage-survey timing, June 2026 quarter)

Environmental record

Issuer-reported environmental status

At 25 September 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

Astral’s FY2026 annual report says that, as at the report date, the Group was not aware of any significant breaches of applicable environmental requirements. This is an issuer statement about the company, not an independent regulator check or a finding about this person; the report also identifies environmental, heritage and native-title risks.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. CFO and Company Secretary was part of the current management roster, but the annual report does not attribute environmental compliance decisions to this individual.

Relevance: Environmental compliance is relevant to project development and approvals; the issuer statement does not establish a clean personal or company record.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Environmental Regulation, p. 44; Environmental and Heritage, Native Title and Community Risks, pp. 30–31)

Governance and interests

Two Astral cleansing-notice failures prompted court applications

May 2023 and April–July 2024 · issuer reported · high materiality

Astral’s July 2023 and June 2024 trading-halt requests, signed by Company Secretary Brendon Morton, say the company missed cleansing notices after share issues. The 2023 request says 9 May, while its later issuer release and attached court orders identify the issue as 8 May; the 2023 court granted relief. The 2024 request says shares were issued on 9 April and describes the failure as inadvertent. The prior report attributed detailed actions to Morton using two judgment mirrors; both mirrors timed out during this refresh, so those details and 2024 court reasoning could not be independently reverified. The reviewed halt requests establish company-level control failures and his secretarial role, not individual misconduct or fraud.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Morton signed the halt requests in his capacity as Company Secretary. The issuer notices reviewed do not establish his individual responsibility for either failure; court reasons could not be reopened in this refresh.

Relevance: Highly relevant to CFO/Company Secretary suitability, ASX disclosure controls and control continuity during leave.

Astral Resources NL – Request for Trading Halt, 7 July 2023 (Trading halt request p. 2 and Morton signature); Court Orders Granted (Issuer announcement p. 1 and attached court orders pp. 2–3); Astral Resources NL – Request for Trading Halt, 28 June 2024 (Trading halt request and Morton signature p. 1)

Suitability for the current role

Relevant finance and company-secretarial experience

Current AAR and FZR roles; prior career dates mostly undisclosed · analyst inference · medium materiality

AAR reports Morton was appointed CFO and Company Secretary on 13 January 2020. He holds a Bachelor of Business and is a member of ICAA and GIA; Fitzroy River’s 2025 report records 25 years of predominantly mining/mining-services experience and prior CFO/company-secretarial roles. A secondary profile says he began at Ernst & Young and worked in senior finance roles across several regions. Analyst inference: this aligns with AAR’s listed-company finance and disclosure needs; credentials and memberships were not independently checked.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Role fit is inferred from issuer-reported roles and qualifications; it is not proof of effectiveness.

Relevance: Directly relevant to a listed developer’s financial reporting, capital raising and disclosure obligations.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Company Secretary, p. 47); Fitzroy River Corporation Ltd Annual Report 2025 (Directors’ report, p. 9); Astral Resources NL Executive Bios (Brendon Morton biography)

Evidence gaps

  • The employer-by-employer dates and outcomes across Morton’s prior listed and unlisted company roles are not available in the reviewed material.

  • The two court matters were resolved by relief orders; this review did not find an exhaustive personal litigation, ASIC enforcement, criminal-record or sanctions search.

  • Professional membership and degree claims were not independently checked.

  • The 2024 court text says the adopted checklist was not strictly complied with on six earlier issues; the precise checklist and subsequent control testing are not publicly documented in the sources reviewed.

  • Earlier named-person and topic search records were inherited from the 10 October report and were not independently reconstructed. The 31 October search was broad; complete employer-by-employer and topic-by-topic verification remains incomplete.

  • Full judgment texts for the 2023 and 2024 Astral cleansing-notice cases could not be reopened in this refresh; detailed findings about individual responsibility and the 2024 reasoning remain unverified here.

Jed Whitford

Chief Operating Officer

Current
Full background report for Jed Whitford
Company SuccessIssuer Reported · Medium materiality

Resource, drilling and financing progress at Astral

Astral reported that FY2026 Mandilla resources reached 54 Mt at 1.1 g/t Au for 1.74 Moz, group resources reached 62 Mt for 2.07 Moz, approximately 84 km was drilled across its projects, and a $65 million equity raising was completed. The company remained in exploration/development; these company-level results do not establish this executive’s individual contribution.

Role overlaps event; causation unproven · Chief Operating Officer overlapped the reported company period, but no source identifies individual causation or gives this person sole credit for the resource, drilling or financing outcomes.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 · Review of Operations, pp. 4–5 (FY2026 resource, drilling and project status)
Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 · Placement, p. 33; quarterly activities and cashflow report, June 2026 quarter
FailureIssuer Reported · Medium materiality

Mandilla DFS timing moved beyond the original target

Astral’s 28 October 2025 appointment announcement targeted DFS completion by mid-2026, FID in the September 2026 quarter and first production by end-2027. The June 2026 quarterly report moved DFS completion to Q1 2027 and said FID was expected immediately thereafter; it noted heritage-clearance surveys had slowed and could delay final site layouts. This is a missed/revised company milestone, not evidence of an individual failure or a failed project. The 29 October 2026 September-quarter report continued to target Q1 2027 for the DFS and an FID thereafter; site layouts were complete and permit applications were still planned.

Role overlaps event; causation unproven · Chief Operating Officer overlaps the current project period. The issuer identifies permitting/heritage work as a timing dependency; no source attributes the delay to this individual.

Key Appointments to Advance Mandilla Gold Project Towards Development and Operations · Highlights and project timetable, p. 1; first-production target, p. 1
Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – June 2026 Quarter · June-quarter update: DFS Q1 2027, FID immediately after; heritage-survey timing, June 2026 quarter
Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – September 2026 · Highlights and Definitive Feasibility Study, pp. 1–2 and 16–17
Evidence gaps · 6
  • Exact dates and titles for most prior roles are not publicly specified in the reviewed sources; the Egan Street cessation date is not established.
  • The accessible profile lists UWA but no degree/field; no credential or membership verification was completed.
  • No direct evidence of Whitford’s individual contribution to the Rothsay study/approval or AAR resource and schedule outcomes was located.
  • No exhaustive employment, litigation, regulator, safety or sanctions check across prior employers was performed.
  • Earlier named-person and topic search records were inherited from the 10 October report and were not independently reconstructed. The 31 October search was broad; complete employer-by-employer and topic-by-topic verification remains incomplete.
  • Prior source describing his 2018 appointment was in fact the 2018 annual report; the event is supported by that report, while the exact earlier appointment announcement was not independently located.

Full background report

Jed Whitford

Chief Operating Officer

Career chronology

Education and qualifications

Education information available in public profile

Profile as accessed 10 October 2026 · self reported · low materiality

The self-reported LinkedIn profile lists the University of Western Australia but the accessible text does not identify a degree, field or dates. No qualification is inferred or independently verified.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This records the profile entry only and does not claim that a degree was awarded.

Relevance: Qualification evidence remains incomplete for a senior operations role.

Jed Whitford – Astral Resources professional profile (Education section; no degree/subject visible)

Contributions and company outcomes

Resource, drilling and financing progress at Astral

FY2026; latest reported July–September 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Astral reported that FY2026 Mandilla resources reached 54 Mt at 1.1 g/t Au for 1.74 Moz, group resources reached 62 Mt for 2.07 Moz, approximately 84 km was drilled across its projects, and a $65 million equity raising was completed. The company remained in exploration/development; these company-level results do not establish this executive’s individual contribution.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Chief Operating Officer overlapped the reported company period, but no source identifies individual causation or gives this person sole credit for the resource, drilling or financing outcomes.

Relevance: Useful context for the company’s development progress; it is not evidence of gold production or an individually attributable success.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Review of Operations, pp. 4–5 (FY2026 resource, drilling and project status)); Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Placement, p. 33; quarterly activities and cashflow report, June 2026 quarter)

Rothsay advanced during Egan Street’s development period

2018–2019 development period · issuer reported · low materiality

Egan Street’s 2019 transaction announcement says Rothsay’s updated DFS confirmed technical viability in February 2019 and the mining proposal was approved in June 2019; the company was acquired before the project entered production. Whitford had been appointed General Manager–Rothsay in June 2018. No reviewed source attributes the DFS or approval outcome to him individually, and his precise cessation date is not disclosed.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The project role overlapped the study/approval period, but individual contribution is not documented.

Relevance: Relevant project-development context; not proof of personally delivered production or commissioning.

Egan Street Resources Limited Annual Report 2018 (FY2018 annual report, remuneration report p. 28, General Manager – Rothsay appointment); Silver Lake to acquire EganStreet Resources (Rothsay status and transaction, pp. 1–2)

Business failures and setbacks

Mandilla DFS timing moved beyond the original target

October 2025 to 29 October 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Astral’s 28 October 2025 appointment announcement targeted DFS completion by mid-2026, FID in the September 2026 quarter and first production by end-2027. The June 2026 quarterly report moved DFS completion to Q1 2027 and said FID was expected immediately thereafter; it noted heritage-clearance surveys had slowed and could delay final site layouts. This is a missed/revised company milestone, not evidence of an individual failure or a failed project. The 29 October 2026 September-quarter report continued to target Q1 2027 for the DFS and an FID thereafter; site layouts were complete and permit applications were still planned.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Chief Operating Officer overlaps the current project period. The issuer identifies permitting/heritage work as a timing dependency; no source attributes the delay to this individual.

Relevance: Execution timing matters to a pre-production gold developer, but the evidence supports a project-level schedule change only.

Key Appointments to Advance Mandilla Gold Project Towards Development and Operations (Highlights and project timetable, p. 1; first-production target, p. 1); Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – June 2026 Quarter (June-quarter update: DFS Q1 2027, FID immediately after; heritage-survey timing, June 2026 quarter); Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – September 2026 (Highlights and Definitive Feasibility Study, pp. 1–2 and 16–17)

Environmental record

Issuer-reported environmental status

At 25 September 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

Astral’s FY2026 annual report says that, as at the report date, the Group was not aware of any significant breaches of applicable environmental requirements. This is an issuer statement about the company, not an independent regulator check or a finding about this person; the report also identifies environmental, heritage and native-title risks.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Chief Operating Officer was part of the current management roster, but the annual report does not attribute environmental compliance decisions to this individual.

Relevance: Environmental compliance is relevant to project development and approvals; the issuer statement does not establish a clean personal or company record.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Environmental Regulation, p. 44; Environmental and Heritage, Native Title and Community Risks, pp. 30–31)

Suitability for the current role

Operations and process-safety experience relevant to Mandilla

Career to cutoff; AAR appointment 28 October 2025 · analyst inference · medium materiality

Astral’s October 2025 appointment release says Whitford has more than 25 years in mining, mainly gold and nickel, spanning exploration through mine closure, with roles in strategy, M&A, risk and process safety; his most recent role was in Glencore Nickel’s global management team. The issuer describes him as COO overseeing Mandilla DFS delivery. Analyst inference: this is relevant to project execution and operating readiness, but does not establish individual performance at prior employers.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Role fit is inferred from issuer-reported experience and current remit, not independently validated against references or employment records.

Relevance: Relevant to a developer moving from studies and approvals toward construction and operations.

Key Appointments to Advance Mandilla Gold Project Towards Development and Operations (Appointment and biography, pp. 1–2); Astral Resources NL Executive Bios (Jed Whitford biography)

Evidence gaps

  • Exact dates and titles for most prior roles are not publicly specified in the reviewed sources; the Egan Street cessation date is not established.

  • The accessible profile lists UWA but no degree/field; no credential or membership verification was completed.

  • No direct evidence of Whitford’s individual contribution to the Rothsay study/approval or AAR resource and schedule outcomes was located.

  • No exhaustive employment, litigation, regulator, safety or sanctions check across prior employers was performed.

  • Earlier named-person and topic search records were inherited from the 10 October report and were not independently reconstructed. The 31 October search was broad; complete employer-by-employer and topic-by-topic verification remains incomplete.

  • Prior source describing his 2018 appointment was in fact the 2018 annual report; the event is supported by that report, while the exact earlier appointment announcement was not independently located.

Mathew Wilson

General Manager – Mandilla

Current
Full background report for Mathew Wilson
Company SuccessIssuer Reported · Medium materiality

Côté Gold reached first gold and commercial production

AAR’s issuer biography says Wilson was Mine Manager during Côté Gold development and successful startup; IAMGOLD’s 2024 release independently confirms the mine’s first gold pour on 31 March 2024 and commercial production on 2 August 2024, defined as 30 consecutive days at an average of 60% of 36,000 tpd nameplate. The sources establish the project outcome and Wilson’s Mine Manager role in the development period, but do not isolate his individual causal contribution or exact tenure dates.

Role overlaps event; causation unproven · AAR identifies Wilson as Mine Manager during development/startup; the project outcome is corroborated by the operator, but no source assigns it to Wilson alone.

IAMGOLD Announces Commercial Production at Côté Gold · Issuer release, paragraphs 1–4
Company SuccessIssuer Reported · Medium materiality

Resource, drilling and financing progress at Astral

Astral reported that FY2026 Mandilla resources reached 54 Mt at 1.1 g/t Au for 1.74 Moz, group resources reached 62 Mt for 2.07 Moz, approximately 84 km was drilled across its projects, and a $65 million equity raising was completed. The company remained in exploration/development; these company-level results do not establish this executive’s individual contribution.

Role overlaps event; causation unproven · General Manager – Mandilla overlapped the reported company period, but no source identifies individual causation or gives this person sole credit for the resource, drilling or financing outcomes.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 · Review of Operations, pp. 4–5 (FY2026 resource, drilling and project status)
Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 · Placement, p. 33; quarterly activities and cashflow report, June 2026 quarter
FailureIssuer Reported · Medium materiality

Mandilla DFS timing moved beyond the original target

Astral’s 28 October 2025 appointment announcement targeted DFS completion by mid-2026, FID in the September 2026 quarter and first production by end-2027. The June 2026 quarterly report moved DFS completion to Q1 2027 and said FID was expected immediately thereafter; it noted heritage-clearance surveys had slowed and could delay final site layouts. This is a missed/revised company milestone, not evidence of an individual failure or a failed project. The 29 October 2026 September-quarter report continued to target Q1 2027 for the DFS and an FID thereafter; site layouts were complete and permit applications were still planned.

Role overlaps event; causation unproven · General Manager – Mandilla overlaps the current project period. The issuer identifies permitting/heritage work as a timing dependency; no source attributes the delay to this individual.

Key Appointments to Advance Mandilla Gold Project Towards Development and Operations · Highlights and project timetable, p. 1; first-production target, p. 1
Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – June 2026 Quarter · June-quarter update: DFS Q1 2027, FID immediately after; heritage-survey timing, June 2026 quarter
Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – September 2026 · Highlights and Definitive Feasibility Study, pp. 1–2 and 16–17
Evidence gaps · 4
  • Wilson’s exact Côté employment dates and individual startup responsibilities are not disclosed in the reviewed sources.
  • The nature and final outcome of the Ontario labour ministry orders and investigation after the 2023 off-shift Côté death were not located in the targeted follow-up searches.
  • No independent verification of Curtin qualifications, employment references, or exhaustive litigation, regulator, safety or sanctions records was completed.
  • Earlier named-person and topic search records were inherited from the 10 October report and were not independently reconstructed. The 31 October search was broad; complete employer-by-employer and topic-by-topic verification remains incomplete.

Full background report

Mathew Wilson

General Manager – Mandilla

Career chronology

Education and qualifications

Mining and commerce degrees reported by Astral

As reported 30 September 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

Astral’s biography reports a Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) and a Bachelor of Commerce, both from Curtin University. These qualifications were not independently checked with the awarding institution.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Issuer-attributed education claim; no independent credential verification was completed.

Relevance: Relevant to a mining-engineering and project-management role.

Astral Resources NL Executive Bios (Mathew Wilson biography; source attributed to Astral on 30 September 2026)

Contributions and company outcomes

Côté Gold reached first gold and commercial production

Development/startup; first gold March 2024 and commercial production August 2024 · issuer reported · medium materiality

AAR’s issuer biography says Wilson was Mine Manager during Côté Gold development and successful startup; IAMGOLD’s 2024 release independently confirms the mine’s first gold pour on 31 March 2024 and commercial production on 2 August 2024, defined as 30 consecutive days at an average of 60% of 36,000 tpd nameplate. The sources establish the project outcome and Wilson’s Mine Manager role in the development period, but do not isolate his individual causal contribution or exact tenure dates.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. AAR identifies Wilson as Mine Manager during development/startup; the project outcome is corroborated by the operator, but no source assigns it to Wilson alone.

Relevance: A relevant developer-to-operator outcome for a manager now responsible for Mandilla; not a personal award or sole-credit claim.

Key Appointments to Advance Mandilla Gold Project Towards Development and Operations (Career biography, p. 2); Côté Gold Project NI 43-101 Technical Report, November 2021 (Project personnel, section 2.1); IAMGOLD Announces Commercial Production at Côté Gold (Issuer release, paragraphs 1–4)

Resource, drilling and financing progress at Astral

FY2026; latest reported July–September 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Astral reported that FY2026 Mandilla resources reached 54 Mt at 1.1 g/t Au for 1.74 Moz, group resources reached 62 Mt for 2.07 Moz, approximately 84 km was drilled across its projects, and a $65 million equity raising was completed. The company remained in exploration/development; these company-level results do not establish this executive’s individual contribution.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. General Manager – Mandilla overlapped the reported company period, but no source identifies individual causation or gives this person sole credit for the resource, drilling or financing outcomes.

Relevance: Useful context for the company’s development progress; it is not evidence of gold production or an individually attributable success.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Review of Operations, pp. 4–5 (FY2026 resource, drilling and project status)); Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Placement, p. 33; quarterly activities and cashflow report, June 2026 quarter)

Business failures and setbacks

Mandilla DFS timing moved beyond the original target

October 2025 to 29 October 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Astral’s 28 October 2025 appointment announcement targeted DFS completion by mid-2026, FID in the September 2026 quarter and first production by end-2027. The June 2026 quarterly report moved DFS completion to Q1 2027 and said FID was expected immediately thereafter; it noted heritage-clearance surveys had slowed and could delay final site layouts. This is a missed/revised company milestone, not evidence of an individual failure or a failed project. The 29 October 2026 September-quarter report continued to target Q1 2027 for the DFS and an FID thereafter; site layouts were complete and permit applications were still planned.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. General Manager – Mandilla overlaps the current project period. The issuer identifies permitting/heritage work as a timing dependency; no source attributes the delay to this individual.

Relevance: Execution timing matters to a pre-production gold developer, but the evidence supports a project-level schedule change only.

Key Appointments to Advance Mandilla Gold Project Towards Development and Operations (Highlights and project timetable, p. 1; first-production target, p. 1); Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – June 2026 Quarter (June-quarter update: DFS Q1 2027, FID immediately after; heritage-survey timing, June 2026 quarter); Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – September 2026 (Highlights and Definitive Feasibility Study, pp. 1–2 and 16–17)

Industrial safety

Côté contractor death reported off-shift; investigation and orders outcomes unresolved

September–October 2023; final investigation and orders outcome not located by 31 October 2026 · documented · low materiality

IAMGOLD reported that on 29 September 2023 a contractor employee was found deceased near Côté Gold’s camp accommodation. IAMGOLD said the individual was not on shift or engaged in mining or construction and the cause was unknown. On 9 October 2023, Northern Ontario Business reported that the Ontario labour ministry issued two orders to IAMGOLD, and two orders and two requirements to the contractor Moreau. The contents and final outcome of these orders were not established in the sources reviewed. AAR’s biography places Wilson as mine manager during development and startup, but his dates at the incident and any responsibility remain unconfirmed.

Attribution: Responsibility unresolved. The event is linked to the Côté site/employer, not to Wilson personally. The source describes it as off-shift and non-work-related; no personal or operational cause is attributed.

Relevance: Relevant safety context for a prior project role; the limited record does not support an adverse individual inference.

IAMGOLD Reports Non-Work Related Fatality at Côté Gold Project (Issuer release, 29 September 2023); Key Appointments to Advance Mandilla Gold Project Towards Development and Operations (Career biography, p. 2); Côté Gold Project NI 43-101 Technical Report, November 2021 (Project personnel, section 2.1); Investigation continues into death of mine contractor (Ministry spokesperson statement and incident details)

Environmental record

Issuer-reported environmental status

At 25 September 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

Astral’s FY2026 annual report says that, as at the report date, the Group was not aware of any significant breaches of applicable environmental requirements. This is an issuer statement about the company, not an independent regulator check or a finding about this person; the report also identifies environmental, heritage and native-title risks.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. General Manager – Mandilla was part of the current management roster, but the annual report does not attribute environmental compliance decisions to this individual.

Relevance: Environmental compliance is relevant to project development and approvals; the issuer statement does not establish a clean personal or company record.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Environmental Regulation, p. 44; Environmental and Heritage, Native Title and Community Risks, pp. 30–31)

Suitability for the current role

Mining engineering and mine-startup experience

Career to cutoff; AAR appointment 28 October 2025 · analyst inference · medium materiality

Astral’s appointment biography describes Wilson as a mining engineer with more than 20 years in strategic, project-development and operational management roles across Australia, Africa, New Caledonia, South America and Canada. It reports that he was Mine Manager during Côté Gold’s development and successful startup. The profile reports BEng (Mining) and BCom qualifications from Curtin. Analyst inference: this background is relevant to Mandilla’s development and operational-readiness needs; dates and personal contributions remain limited.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. The fit judgment uses issuer-reported biography and a project technical report listing his role; it is not an independent employment or credential verification.

Relevance: Relevant to study, mine planning, development and startup responsibilities at Mandilla.

Key Appointments to Advance Mandilla Gold Project Towards Development and Operations (Appointment and biography, pp. 1–2); Côté Gold Project NI 43-101 Technical Report, November 2021 (Project personnel, section 2.1); Astral Resources NL Executive Bios (Mathew Wilson biography)

Evidence gaps

  • Wilson’s exact Côté employment dates and individual startup responsibilities are not disclosed in the reviewed sources.

  • The nature and final outcome of the Ontario labour ministry orders and investigation after the 2023 off-shift Côté death were not located in the targeted follow-up searches.

  • No independent verification of Curtin qualifications, employment references, or exhaustive litigation, regulator, safety or sanctions records was completed.

  • Earlier named-person and topic search records were inherited from the 10 October report and were not independently reconstructed. The 31 October search was broad; complete employer-by-employer and topic-by-topic verification remains incomplete.

Julie Reid

Geology Manager

Current
Full background report for Julie Reid
Company SuccessIssuer Reported · Medium materiality

Resource, drilling and financing progress at Astral

Astral reported that FY2026 Mandilla resources reached 54 Mt at 1.1 g/t Au for 1.74 Moz, group resources reached 62 Mt for 2.07 Moz, approximately 84 km was drilled across its projects, and a $65 million equity raising was completed. The company remained in exploration/development; these company-level results do not establish this executive’s individual contribution.

Role overlaps event; causation unproven · Geology Manager overlapped the reported company period, but no source identifies individual causation or gives this person sole credit for the resource, drilling or financing outcomes.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 · Review of Operations, pp. 4–5 (FY2026 resource, drilling and project status)
Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 · Placement, p. 33; quarterly activities and cashflow report, June 2026 quarter
Evidence gaps · 5
  • The title in issuer-attributed Equilar material differs from the roster title; the 14 October 2026 company presentation supports retaining “Geology Manager.”
  • The accessible biography does not identify prior employers or exact tenure dates; the degree and career length are issuer-attributed and not independently verified.
  • Search results included unrelated people named Julie Reid, including foreign court and employment records; they were excluded because the identity/employer/geography did not match Astral’s Perth-based geology manager.
  • No exhaustive professional-register, employment-reference, litigation, regulator, criminal-record or sanctions search was completed.
  • Earlier named-person and topic search records were inherited from the 10 October report and were not independently reconstructed. The 31 October search was broad; complete employer-by-employer and topic-by-topic verification remains incomplete.

Full background report

Julie Reid

Geology Manager

Career chronology

Education and qualifications

Applied Science degree reported by Astral

Issuer presentation dated 14 October 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

Astral-attributed biography reports a Bachelor of Applied Science from Curtin University of Technology. The awarding record was not independently verified.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Issuer-attributed qualification claim, not an independent credential check.

Relevance: Relevant to geology responsibilities but not proof of work performance.

Julie Reid – Executive Biography (Biography; source attributed to Astral on 30 September 2026); Australian Gold Conference Presentation (Slide 9, Julie Reid biography)

Contributions and company outcomes

Resource, drilling and financing progress at Astral

FY2026; latest reported July–September 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Astral reported that FY2026 Mandilla resources reached 54 Mt at 1.1 g/t Au for 1.74 Moz, group resources reached 62 Mt for 2.07 Moz, approximately 84 km was drilled across its projects, and a $65 million equity raising was completed. The company remained in exploration/development; these company-level results do not establish this executive’s individual contribution.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Geology Manager overlapped the reported company period, but no source identifies individual causation or gives this person sole credit for the resource, drilling or financing outcomes.

Relevance: Useful context for the company’s development progress; it is not evidence of gold production or an individually attributable success.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Review of Operations, pp. 4–5 (FY2026 resource, drilling and project status)); Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Placement, p. 33; quarterly activities and cashflow report, June 2026 quarter)

Business failures and setbacks

Mandilla DFS timing moved beyond the original target

October 2025 to July–September 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

Astral’s 28 October 2025 appointment announcement targeted DFS completion by mid-2026, FID in the September 2026 quarter and first production by end-2027. The June 2026 quarterly report moved DFS completion to Q1 2027 and said FID was expected immediately thereafter; it noted heritage-clearance surveys had slowed and could delay final site layouts. This is a missed/revised company milestone, not evidence of an individual failure or a failed project.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Geology Manager overlaps the current project period. The issuer identifies permitting/heritage work as a timing dependency; no source attributes the delay to this individual.

Relevance: Execution timing matters to a pre-production gold developer, but the evidence supports a project-level schedule change only.

Key Appointments to Advance Mandilla Gold Project Towards Development and Operations (Highlights and project timetable, p. 1; first-production target, p. 1); Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – June 2026 Quarter (June-quarter update: DFS Q1 2027, FID immediately after; heritage-survey timing, June 2026 quarter)

Environmental record

Issuer-reported environmental status

At 25 September 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

Astral’s FY2026 annual report says that, as at the report date, the Group was not aware of any significant breaches of applicable environmental requirements. This is an issuer statement about the company, not an independent regulator check or a finding about this person; the report also identifies environmental, heritage and native-title risks.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Geology Manager was part of the current management roster, but the annual report does not attribute environmental compliance decisions to this individual.

Relevance: Environmental compliance is relevant to project development and approvals; the issuer statement does not establish a clean personal or company record.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Environmental Regulation, p. 44; Environmental and Heritage, Native Title and Community Risks, pp. 30–31)

Suitability for the current role

Senior geology and Competent Person responsibilities

Current role and 2026 technical disclosures · analyst inference · medium materiality

Astral-attributed material reports 36 years of experience across Australia, Vietnam and Indonesia, a Bachelor of Applied Science from Curtin, and the title General Manager of Geology. AAR’s interim report names Reid as the competent person who compiled and fairly represented Mandilla and Feysville exploration targets/results, confirms AusIMM membership and consent, and assigns resource estimates separately to independent consultant Michael Job. Analyst inference: the role and disclosed technical work fit a geology-management function; no discovery or resource-estimation credit is inferred. Astral’s September-quarter report names her as the Competent Person for exploration targets and results at Mandilla, Feysville and Spargoville.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. The issuer directly assigns exploration-results compilation/CP responsibilities; the role-fit conclusion is an inference and credentials remain issuer-attributed.

Relevance: Relevant to technical disclosure and exploration management; mineral-resource estimates are separately attributed.

Julie Reid – Executive Biography (Biography and title; source attributed to Astral on 30 September 2026); Astral Resources Interim Financial Report – 31 December 2025 (Competent Person statement, pp. 27–28); Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – September 2026 (Competent Persons statements, pp. 25–26)

Evidence gaps

  • The title in issuer-attributed Equilar material differs from the roster title; the 14 October 2026 company presentation supports retaining “Geology Manager.”

  • The accessible biography does not identify prior employers or exact tenure dates; the degree and career length are issuer-attributed and not independently verified.

  • Search results included unrelated people named Julie Reid, including foreign court and employment records; they were excluded because the identity/employer/geography did not match Astral’s Perth-based geology manager.

  • No exhaustive professional-register, employment-reference, litigation, regulator, criminal-record or sanctions search was completed.

  • Earlier named-person and topic search records were inherited from the 10 October report and were not independently reconstructed. The 31 October search was broad; complete employer-by-employer and topic-by-topic verification remains incomplete.

Richard Jones

Exploration Manager

Current
Full background report for Richard Jones
Company SuccessIssuer Reported · Medium materiality

Resource, drilling and financing progress at Astral

Astral reported that FY2026 Mandilla resources reached 54 Mt at 1.1 g/t Au for 1.74 Moz, group resources reached 62 Mt for 2.07 Moz, approximately 84 km was drilled across its projects, and a $65 million equity raising was completed. The company remained in exploration/development; these company-level results do not establish this executive’s individual contribution.

Role overlaps event; causation unproven · Exploration Manager overlapped the reported company period, but no source identifies individual causation or gives this person sole credit for the resource, drilling or financing outcomes.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 · Review of Operations, pp. 4–5 (FY2026 resource, drilling and project status)
Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 · Placement, p. 33; quarterly activities and cashflow report, June 2026 quarter
Evidence gaps · 4
  • Astral names a prior senior Egan Street exploration role, but its exact title and dates and the degree or subject associated with the University of Birmingham profile entry remain unresolved.
  • No individual AAR exploration discovery or project result was attributed to Jones in the sources reviewed; the resource and drilling figures are company-level.
  • Many people share this name; identity was restricted to the Astral/Perth exploration profile. No exhaustive employment-reference, criminal, sanctions, litigation or regulator check was completed.
  • Earlier named-person and topic search records were inherited from the 10 October report and were not independently reconstructed. The 31 October search was broad; complete employer-by-employer and topic-by-topic verification remains incomplete.

Full background report

Richard Jones

Exploration Manager

Career chronology

Education and qualifications

Profile lists university attendance but no awarded degree

Self-reported profile entry, 2006–2009 · self reported · low materiality

The self-reported LinkedIn profile lists the University of Birmingham and dates 2006–2009, but no degree, subject or award is stated. No qualification is inferred.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is an education entry only; no degree or credential claim is made.

Relevance: A specific education credential could not be assessed from the accessible profile.

Richard Jones – Astral Resources professional profile (Education section)

Contributions and company outcomes

Resource, drilling and financing progress at Astral

FY2026; latest reported July–September 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Astral reported that FY2026 Mandilla resources reached 54 Mt at 1.1 g/t Au for 1.74 Moz, group resources reached 62 Mt for 2.07 Moz, approximately 84 km was drilled across its projects, and a $65 million equity raising was completed. The company remained in exploration/development; these company-level results do not establish this executive’s individual contribution.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Exploration Manager overlapped the reported company period, but no source identifies individual causation or gives this person sole credit for the resource, drilling or financing outcomes.

Relevance: Useful context for the company’s development progress; it is not evidence of gold production or an individually attributable success.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Review of Operations, pp. 4–5 (FY2026 resource, drilling and project status)); Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Placement, p. 33; quarterly activities and cashflow report, June 2026 quarter)

Environmental record

Issuer-reported environmental status

At 25 September 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

Astral’s FY2026 annual report says that, as at the report date, the Group was not aware of any significant breaches of applicable environmental requirements. This is an issuer statement about the company, not an independent regulator check or a finding about this person; the report also identifies environmental, heritage and native-title risks.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Exploration Manager was part of the current management roster, but the annual report does not attribute environmental compliance decisions to this individual.

Relevance: Environmental compliance is relevant to project development and approvals; the issuer statement does not establish a clean personal or company record.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Environmental Regulation, p. 44; Environmental and Heritage, Native Title and Community Risks, pp. 30–31)

Suitability for the current role

Exploration experience is relevant; public chronology is thin

Current role; earlier profile entries undated · analyst inference · medium materiality

The 14 October issuer presentation identifies Jones as Exploration Manager and reports a prior senior Egan Street exploration-team position, without exact dates or title. His self-reported profile describes nickel exploration management and locations including Mount Marion, Mount Morgans and Fraser Range. Analyst inference: this reported background is relevant to an exploration-management position, but sources do not establish individual delivery or a complete chronology.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. The career details are self-reported and incomplete; no independent employment dates or referee confirmation were located.

Relevance: Relevant to AAR exploration, but limited chronology reduces confidence in prior track-record assessment.

Diggers and Dealers Conference Presentation (slide 9); Richard Jones – Astral Resources professional profile (About, Experience and identity sections); Australian Gold Conference Presentation (Slide 9, Richard Jones biography)

Evidence gaps

  • Astral names a prior senior Egan Street exploration role, but its exact title and dates and the degree or subject associated with the University of Birmingham profile entry remain unresolved.

  • No individual AAR exploration discovery or project result was attributed to Jones in the sources reviewed; the resource and drilling figures are company-level.

  • Many people share this name; identity was restricted to the Astral/Perth exploration profile. No exhaustive employment-reference, criminal, sanctions, litigation or regulator check was completed.

  • Earlier named-person and topic search records were inherited from the 10 October report and were not independently reconstructed. The 31 October search was broad; complete employer-by-employer and topic-by-topic verification remains incomplete.