Johan van Dyk

Career chronology

• Appointed in 2025 after PCZM DFS completion; appointment is described in 2026 Interim Report: Orion Minerals Limited — Project Director. Interim Financial Report for half-year ended 31 December 2025 (operations review, p.7)

• 26 years before Orion; exact dates/sequence not specified: Palabora Mining Company — Senior operations, projects and SHEQ roles. Annual Report 2025 (2025 Annual Report p.17; 2026 Interim Report p.7)

• Earlier roles; dates/titles not specified: ISCOR; Sasol; Rio Tinto North Parkes — Mining/industrial roles. Annual Report 2025 (2025 Annual Report p.17; 2026 Interim Report p.7)

Education and qualifications

Education and professional qualifications disclosed

Reported in 2025 annual report; cutoff 2026-10-09 · documented · low materiality

MBA, University of Cumbria, and South African Government Certificate of Competency, as reported by Orion. Award dates and issuer/registry verification were not located.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Issuer profile disclosure; independent transcript or professional-registry confirmation was not established in this review.

Relevance: Relevant to professional preparation for the listed executive role; the disclosure is not an independent credential verification.

Annual Report 2025 (2025 Annual Report p.17; 2026 Interim Report p.7)

Contributions and company outcomes

Role-specific experience and documented outcomes

Career history through 2026-07-31 · documented · low materiality

Since joining Orion, the June 2026 report records completion of the Orion Project Governance Plan and PCZM Project Execution Plan, plus project-execution readiness work. The project was still pre-execution pending finance conditions at that report date; these are planning outputs, not operating delivery.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The cited source documents the role or team contribution stated; broader company milestones are not assigned to the executive individually.

Relevance: Provides evidence about experience or execution relevant to the current role, with the stated limits on attribution.

Interim Financial Report for half-year ended 31 December 2025 (project-readiness update, p.5); June 2026 Quarterly Activities Report (project status and governance plan, lines 221–245)

Fraud and corruption

Issuer warned of third-party impersonation scam using executive’s name

Approximately March 2026 (issuer scam warning, displayed as seven months before access); May 2025 same-name user review not identity-linked. · documented · low materiality

In approximately March 2026, Orion warned suppliers that an Afrikaans-speaking individual was impersonating Project Director Johan van Dyk through WhatsApp and soliciting identity documents and a R4,000 payment. The warning identifies van Dyk as the impersonated person, not as a participant. A separate May 2025 Trustpilot review by a user named “Johan Van Dyk” says the reviewer was targeted by an investment scam and intended to report it; it contains no Orion or employment identifier, so the reviewer cannot be matched to this executive. That is a possible victim-context lead, not an adverse allegation against him. No later resolution of the issuer-reported impersonation incident was located.

Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. The source states an unknown third party impersonated the executive; it supplies no allegation of executive wrongdoing.

Relevance: A fraud lead was reviewed and resolved as impersonation/victim context, not adverse conduct by the executive. Later case disposition was not found.

Supplier warning: scam impersonating Project Director Johan van Dyk (issuer warning to suppliers; displayed as posted about seven months before 2026-10-09); VALR customer reviews: review by “Johan Van Dyk” (review dated 2025-05-30 and VALR response dated 2025-10-07, lines 182–202)

Industrial safety

Reported safety record during Orion project period

2024-12 through 2026-06 · documented · medium materiality

Orion’s June 2026 quarterly report states there were no injuries or incidents in the quarter, a zero LTIFR for FY2026 to date, and 473 days without an LTI at quarter end. The 2025 annual report separately records an LTI at PCZM in the March 2025 quarter and a minor non-LTI injury in the December 2024 quarter. These are issuer-reported site-level events; no source attributes either incident to this executive. Andre Bergh’s mine GM role overlaps the PCZM setting; Johan van Dyk joined Orion after the reported 2025 LTI, so that event does not overlap his Orion tenure.

Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. The issuer discloses site-level events and the executive’s role/tenure; no personal causation or breach is established.

Relevance: Relevant to operational leadership and safety oversight; the record has both a prior LTI and a later injury-free period.

Annual Report 2025 (Health, Safety and Environment section, pp.19–20; PCZM quarterly safety disclosure); June 2026 Quarterly Activities Report (Health and Safety, lines 144–169)

Suitability for the current role

Role fit supported by relevant experience; delivery limits remain

2026-09-26 roster; evidence through 2026-07-31 · analyst inference · medium materiality

The dated issuer records establish the current role and the experience noted above. Since joining Orion, the June 2026 report records completion of the Orion Project Governance Plan and PCZM Project Execution Plan, plus project-execution readiness work. The project was still pre-execution pending finance conditions at that report date; these are planning outputs, not operating delivery. The evidence supports relevance of prior/current experience, but is insufficient to establish a complete performance record, credential verification, or causal contribution to company outcomes.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Analyst inference based on disclosed qualifications, experience and role.

Relevance: Role fit is assessed against role scope; company milestones are not treated as individual achievement absent direct evidence.

Annual Report 2025 (2025 Annual Report p.17; 2026 Interim Report p.7); June 2026 Quarterly Activities Report (relevant executive/team activity and project status)

Evidence gaps

• The issuer biographies provide only partial employment chronology; exact start/end dates and role descriptions at several prior employers were not disclosed.

• Education/qualification claims in issuer profiles were not independently verified against issuing institutions or professional registers.

• No exhaustive criminal, sanctions, court, regulator, employment-reference or credential search was performed; documented exact-name public searches are limited and must not be read as clearance.

• Company/project safety and environmental records are largely issuer-reported, and the reviewed sources do not establish personal responsibility for the disclosed site-level issues.

• A May 2025 public review by a person with the same name as Johan van Dyk could not be identity-matched to the executive; the review gives no employment identifier. No later resolution of the separate 2026 impersonation warning was located.