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2026-11-06

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Full background report

Ian Harvey

General Manager, Export Operations

Career chronology

  • Senior leadership role listed in FY2020 and FY2025 annual reports; current issuer page confirms title; dates not stated: Bathurst Resources Limited — General Manager, Export Operations. Our People (Our People, lines 121–127); Annual Report 2025 (Senior leadership, p. 22, lines 390–391)

  • More than 30 years’ industry experience; employer-by-employer dates not published: Metallurgical coal and mining sector — Senior operations/management; market planning, resource optimisation, mine planning and design. Our People (Our People, lines 121–127); Annual Report 2020 (senior leadership, p. 34, lines 1540–1546)

Contributions and company outcomes

FY26 export output and sales recovered

FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Bathurst reported FY26 export production of 1.036Mt versus 0.956Mt in FY25 and sales of 1.145Mt. Harvey’s export-operations role fits the segment, but the reports do not isolate his contribution from rail restoration, market prices, joint-venture assets or other teams.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Role overlap is documented, not individual causation.

Relevance: Export production and shipment are directly relevant to current operations remit.

30 June 2026 Results Announcement (p. 2, export operations results); Our People (Our People, lines 121–127)

Business failures and setbacks

FY25 exports constrained by rail-tunnel outage

FY2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Bathurst reported a Stockton rail-tunnel failure closed the export route for six months during FY25; alternate road freight allowed exports to continue but at higher cost and lower volume. This overlapped Harvey’s export-operations remit, yet the record attributes the cause to infrastructure failure and does not establish a personal operational lapse.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. No individual act or negligence is documented; the company described an external rail tunnel closure and mitigation via road freight.

Relevance: Export-route resilience and logistics are relevant to export-operations leadership.

Annual Report 2025 (CEO report, p. 9–10, lines 127–134); Our People (Our People, lines 121–127)

Suitability for the current role

General Manager, Export Operations is supported by relevant functional experience

Current role as at 10 October 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

Bathurst identifies Harvey as a mining engineer with more than 30 years’ industry experience, senior operations/management experience, and specialties in metallurgical-coal market planning, resource optimisation, mine planning and design. Those skills fit an export-operations remit; individual delivery attribution remains limited.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is an analyst assessment of role fit, based on issuer-reported career facts; it is not an independent performance evaluation.

Relevance: Role fit is relevant to the executive team’s ability to run operating mines, manage growth or deliver company functions.

Our People (Our People, lines 121–127); Annual Report 2025 (Senior leadership, p. 22, lines 390–391)

Evidence gaps

  • Prior employers, exact start dates, degree details and project-by-project operating outcomes are not documented in the reviewed sources.

  • Export volumes and the FY25 rail-tunnel disruption are company/segment results; the sources do not establish Harvey’s individual contribution or fault.

  • No exhaustive court, regulator, criminal, sanctions, safety/environment or professional-disciplinary search was completed.