Full background report
Chantelle De La Haye
Chief HSSE Officer
Career chronology
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Before African roles; dates/titles unverified: Tiwest / later Tronox — Mineral-sands operational roles. Aura board and management biographies (Chantelle De la Haye biography)
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Before MDL/Perseus; dates unverified: Anvil Mining — Kulu HSE manager, later regional HSE. Aura board and management biographies (Chantelle De la Haye biography)
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Before Perseus; exact dates unverified: Mineral Deposits, Sabodala — Environmental Manager. Aura board and management biographies (Chantelle De la Haye biography)
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Prior to Byrnecut/Aura; exact departure date not verified: Perseus Mining — Group sustainability / HSE leadership. Aura board and management biographies (Chantelle De la Haye biography)
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Before Aura; exact entity/tenure dates unverified: Byrnecut mining consultancy subsidiary — Global support-services leadership. Aura board and management biographies (Chantelle De la Haye biography)
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Appointed during September quarter 2024; chief HSSE role confirmed October 2026: Aura Energy — HSSE / implementation of ESG framework. Aura September-quarter 2024 activities (Environment Social Governance framework); Aura appoints leadership team to build Tiris (Wider senior team)
Industrial safety
Aura’s reported HSSE controls have limited operating exposure
September 2024–FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality
Aura directly appointed De La Haye to implement its ESG framework in 2024. FY2026 reports zero injuries/significant incidents and emergency/journey controls. No exposure-hour denominator or independently verified production-scale performance is provided.
Attribution: Individual involvement documented. Implementation responsibility is explicit; the company-wide incident outcome is not personally causal evidence.
Relevance: Relevant preparation for construction and radiation-related operations.
Aura September-quarter 2024 activities (ESG framework appointment); Aura FY2026 annual report (PDF pp 20–21)
Perseus recorded a contractor fatality; her exact event-date tenure remains unresolved
FY2022, including 24 June 2022 · documented · medium materiality
Perseus reports one contractor workplace death at Yaouré on 24 June 2022. It says an independently led investigation identified an incomplete tyre-lockring seating and subsequent safety measures. The company separately reports other deaths outside its workplace statistic. De La Haye had an earlier HSE role at Perseus, but event-date tenure and individual responsibility have not been established.
Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. No personal causation or regulatory finding against her is established. All reported death scopes are retained rather than collapsed into one count.
Relevance: Material employer safety history; personal oversight attribution remains uncertain.
Perseus FY2022 sustainable development report (PDF pp 47–48 and 107–108); Aura board and management biographies (De La Haye’s prior Perseus role); Perseus 2022 sustainable development report, filing text (Fatality at Yaouré and safety performance sections)
Environmental record
Tiris environmental work is preparatory
FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality
FY2026 disclosures describe groundwater modelling, radiation monitoring, specialist tailings design and commencement of socioeconomic and human-rights assessment. These are preparation and control activities, not evidence of a producing mine’s environmental performance.
Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. HSSE implementation responsibility overlaps preparation; permitting and operational outcomes have not been independently attributed.
Relevance: The remaining operating evidence matters for a uranium project requiring water, tailings and radiation controls.
Aura FY2026 annual report (PDF pp 20–21, environmental and social controls)
Litigation and enforcement
Kilwa proceedings concern Anvil, without an established personal link
2004 employer events;2012 Canadian procedural result · documented · low materiality
The Canadian Supreme Court docket records 2012 refusal of leave in the Kilwa-related civil case, concerning jurisdiction rather than the merits of corporate responsibility. De La Haye’s former Anvil Kulu/regional role is disclosed, but 2004 event-date employment and a Kilwa role were not established.
Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. She is not named in the reviewed court record; Kulu and the Kilwa/Dikulushi context are not treated as the same assignment.
Relevance: Historical employer screening context, excluded as evidence of personal wrongdoing.
Association canadienne contre l’impunité v Anvil Mining (Docket summary and disposition); Aura board and management biographies (Anvil role)
Suitability for the current role
Fit for Aura’s next development stage
Assessment at 10 October 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality
Environmental, HSE and African mine experience directly fits the implementation role. Current controls are issuer-reported and earlier safety-event tenure remains incomplete, limiting conclusions about individual operating safety performance.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Analytical judgment based on the cited career and delivery evidence.
Relevance: Professional suitability for the disclosed role; this is not a personal integrity score.
Aura September-quarter 2024 activities (HSSE appointment); Aura FY2026 annual report (PDF pp 20–21); Aura board and management biographies (Prior roles)
Evidence gaps
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The former Perseus 2022 AGM biography was inaccessible (404), so its search-index degree claims were not adopted as verified education; university conferral remains unestablished.
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Exact Anvil, Sabodala, Perseus and Byrnecut dates, including whether she held the relevant role on 24 June 2022, remain unresolved.
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Underlying Perseus fatality investigation/regulator files and individually measured HSSE results were not publicly available in reviewed records.
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Earlier 10 October person/topic searches were inherited and were not independently reproduced in the 31 October refresh; the later search was targeted rather than a complete repeat of every topic.