Barend (Barrie) J. van der Merwe

Career chronology

• Current role in roster dated 2026-09-26: Coronado Global Resources Inc. — Chief Executive Officer; Managing Director. Barrie van der Merwe - Coronado Global Resources (official executive profile; biographical statement)

Industrial safety

Fatality at contracted Mammoth mine during Coronado CFO tenure

2026-01-02 · issuer reported · high materiality

Coronado disclosed that a worker died at the Mammoth underground mine on 2 January 2026; the operation was run by contractor Mammoth Underground Mine Management. Work stopped and authorities were engaged. The source states no finding against Barrie van der Merwe; he was Coronado CFO from April 2025 and the event overlaps his corporate finance tenure, but operational responsibility or causal link is not established. Investigation status at cutoff remains unresolved in sources reviewed.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Event overlaps his CFO tenure, but the issuer identified a contractor as operator; no personal operational responsibility was established.

Relevance: High-severity company safety event relevant to enterprise oversight, with individual attribution limited to temporal overlap.

Fatality at Mammoth underground mine (ASX release dated 5 January 2026, paras. 1–5)

Evidence gaps

• Career chronology, prior positions, dates, qualifications and memberships are substantially incomplete unless specifically noted in cited evidence.

• No company-outcome attribution or benchmark-adjusted shareholder-return analysis was performed for this executive.

• Searches of criminal, court, regulator and professional registers were not exhaustive or, for this pass, generally performed.

• Adverse web searches were limited. Targeted court/regulator, environmental and professional-register records, detailed outcomes and any ongoing investigation resolution require further research; no clearance is implied.