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2026-11-06

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Full background report

David Stokes

Company Secretary & General Counsel

Career chronology

  • 2012-04-02–cutoff: MGX Resources Limited — Company Secretary & General Counsel. Annual Report to shareholders (Annual Report to shareholders; directors’ report/corporate directory, roster disclosure)

  • Issuer biography; dates not stated.: Gindalbie Metals — General Counsel and Company Secretary. Management (Management biographies: profile for David Stokes)

  • Issuer biography; dates not stated.: Iluka Resources — Corporate Counsel. Management (Management biographies: profile for David Stokes)

  • Issuer biography; dates not stated.: Resolute Mining — Corporate Counsel. Management (Management biographies: profile for David Stokes)

Business failures and setbacks

Koolan Island Main Pit rockfall led to suspension of mining

2025-10-16 · issuer reported · medium materiality

On 16 October 2025 a major rockfall occurred on the eastern footwall at Koolan Island. MGX reported no injuries after monitoring systems gave warning, but said mining was suspended; remediation was not viable against future stability risks, time, cost and remaining mine life. It withdrew guidance and estimated closure/transition costs at A$30–40 million. FY2025 had already seen lower operating cash flow and a A$90.4 million impairment, before the later rockfall.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The cited record establishes a company or employer event. For role_overlap, the executive held a relevant role in the period, but the reviewed source does not establish personal causation or an individual enforcement finding. For employer_only, no individual link or matching tenure was established.

Relevance: This is relevant context for assessing Company Secretary & General Counsel at the same employer; it should not be read as proof of individual performance or misconduct.

Koolan Island Operations Update (Koolan Island Operations Update, paragraphs “Rockfall Event” and “Operational Implications”; FY2025 Annual Report, operating/cash flow and impairment disclosures.)

Suitability for the current role

Role fit evidence is limited for Company Secretary & General Counsel

2012-04-02–cutoff · analyst inference · low materiality

Issuer sources describe David Stokes’s current role and prior experience, including Gindalbie Metals: Issuer biography; dates not stated. The background is relevant context for Company Secretary & General Counsel; the claims are issuer-reported and personal contribution to outcomes is not inferred.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. No outcome responsibility is inferred from title alone.

Relevance: The role is relevant to the company’s current stage; available evidence supports only a limited assessment of David Stokes’s professional suitability.

Management (Management biographies: profile for David Stokes)

Evidence gaps

  • Individual contribution to company outcomes was not established.

  • The combined name-based web searches were not exhaustive checks of court, criminal, sanctions, credential, or regulator databases; no clearance conclusion is possible.

  • Complete prior-employer dates, qualifications and individual contributions were not independently verified from primary sources for this executive.