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2026-11-06

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Full background report

Mark Rodda

Executive Chairperson

Career chronology

Education and qualifications

Reported legal and arts qualifications

As reported through 2024 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Issuer filings list BA and LLB. The institutions and award dates were not available in the primary disclosures read, and the credentials were not independently verified.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. The qualifications are relevant to executive-chair legal, commercial and corporate oversight; the issuer is the source.

Relevance: Role fit for legal/commercial governance; independent credential verification remains limited.

Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2024 (p. 5; qualifications and biography); Directors & Management (lines 30-34; BA, LLB)

Contributions and company outcomes

LionOre takeover during General Counsel tenure

Through 2007 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Antipa’s annual report states Rodda was LionOre General Counsel and Corporate Secretary before Norilsk Nickel’s takeover for more than US$6bn. This establishes role overlap with a substantial transaction, not Rodda’s personal causal contribution.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. General Counsel and Corporate Secretary role overlapped the takeover; no source reviewed assigns him individual deal leadership or outcome.

Relevance: Relevant corporate transaction and legal governance experience; not evidence of Antipa operating delivery.

Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2024 (p. 5; biography and takeover disclosure)

Antipa resource and funding progress during executive tenure

2021-2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

While Rodda was an executive director and later chair, Antipa completed a A$17m Citadel interest sale, reported a A$51.2m cash balance at 31 December 2025, and grew its total resource to 2.9 Moz gold / 3.6 Moz AuEq by April 2026. These are company outcomes; no source establishes Rodda as the individual cause.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Executive director/chair oversight overlapped these events; transaction agreement pre-dated his chair appointment, and no individual attribution is established for the resource estimate.

Relevance: Relevant to portfolio allocation and oversight; Minyari had not reached production by cutoff.

Citadel Joint Venture Interest Sale Completes (pp. 1-2; transaction and cash proceeds); Interim Financial Report for the half-year ended 31 December 2025 (pp. 21-22; A$51.17m cash at 31 Dec 2025); Minyari Project Resource Grows to 3.6 Moz Gold Equivalent (pp. 1-2; resource estimate)

Business failures and setbacks

PFS timing extended while technical option studies were completed

2026-09-22 · issuer reported · low materiality

The issuer stated that completing detailed processing and mine-schedule option studies extended the expected Minyari PFS release to November 2026. All principal PFS technical workstreams and option studies were reported complete; no operational project failure is established.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Chair oversight overlapped the schedule extension. The issuer tied extra time to comparative technical work; no evidence of personal fault.

Relevance: A modest delivery-timing issue in a pre-production development project.

Minyari PFS Option Studies Update: Optimal Processing and Mine Scheduling Configuration Defined (pp. 1-2; timing extension and completed workstreams)

Coalspur funding shortfall and sale during chair tenure

2014-2015 · documented · high materiality

Coalspur rejected a US$175m final senior facility as insufficient to fund construction of Vista; repayment of its existing facility accelerated, with a later extension tied to a proposed transaction. Coalspur’s board recommended a sale and in June 2015 its shareholders received A$0.023 per share under the completed scheme. The board’s decision followed a strategic review in a challenging funding market; this is a company financing setback, not an established finding of personal misconduct.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Rodda was non-executive chair from July 2014 and signed the scheme booklet; the reviewed sources do not establish that he personally caused the funding shortfall.

Relevance: Material historical project-financing and board-oversight experience for an executive chair at a study-stage developer.

Annual Financial Report year ended 31 December 2014 (p.19, Financial Condition and Liquidity; funding package and repayment); Coalspur scheme booklet (pp.4-5 and p.30; chair letter, strategic review, identity and tenure); Coalspur Announces Implementation of Scheme of Arrangement (scheme implementation and A$0.023 consideration)

Suitability for the current role

Relevant chair experience with limited personal attribution

Current role at cutoff · analyst inference · medium materiality

Given Rodda’s stated legal/commercial career, General Counsel role at LionOre and Antipa executive-chair appointment, his background is relevant to company legal, transaction and governance oversight. This is an analyst inference; quantified personal delivery and independent credential verification are limited.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Inference based on the cited biography and role history; it does not assign individual responsibility for employer outcomes.

Relevance: Role fit is stronger for corporate/legal oversight than for technical mine-building execution.

Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2024 (p. 5; biography and qualifications); Appointment of Mark Rodda as Executive Chair (p. 1; chair appointment); Directors & Management (lines 30-34; current role)

Evidence gaps

  • Issuer disclosures do not establish Rodda’s personal responsibility for LionOre’s takeover, Coalspur project outcomes, Citadel sale negotiations or Antipa resource growth.

  • No independent BA/LLB registry verification, exhaustive litigation/court search, criminal or sanctions check, employment reference, or complete safety/environment enforcement check was performed; no clean/clearance conclusion is made.

  • Coalspur financing documents do not isolate Rodda’s personal contribution to financing decisions; the report does not assess total shareholder returns over a defined holding period.

  • Historical search entries were inherited without an independently verifiable audit trail. Refresh searches were targeted and limited; material former-employer and regulator records have not been exhaustively reviewed.

  • A same-named Tamworth councillor appeared in general search results; the records reviewed did not establish that this is the Antipa executive, so those results were not attributed to him.