Full background report
Richard Jones
Company Secretary & Executive General Manager – Legal/Risk & Sustainability
Career chronology
- Joined 2018: Ramelius Resources — Company Secretary and EGM Legal, Risk and Sustainability. Leadership profiles (Richard Jones biography)
Environmental record
Greenfinch permit process
2018–2020 · issuer reported · medium materiality
Ramelius reported that its original Greenfinch clearing permit was refused and its appeal dismissed; a reduced application was granted later in 2019 subject to conditions. The later 2025 transaction booklet reports final environmental approval in January 2020 and subsequent clearing and mining.
Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Jones had joined Ramelius in 2018; his involvement in the application or appeal is not established.
Relevance: Relevant company-level environmental approval and governance context.
Greenfinch project update (Page 1, refusal and appeal); Greenfinch clearing permit granted (Page 1, reduced permit); Leadership profiles (Richard Jones biography: joined 2018); Spartan scheme transaction booklet (Section 6.6, Edna May progression and Greenfinch approval)
Suitability for the current role
Legal and risk governance
Before and during Ramelius · analyst inference · medium materiality
Ramelius describes Jones as a corporate commercial lawyer with previous company secretary experience across listed and unlisted mining companies. His legal and risk remit appears relevant to approvals and governance.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is a role-fit assessment; independent credential and prior-tenure records were not established.
Relevance: Provides a limited basis for assessing governance role fit.
Leadership profiles (Richard Jones biography)
Evidence gaps
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Independent credentials and memberships were not verified.
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Person-specific searches and prior-employer litigation, safety, environment and governance research remain incomplete.
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Contribution to company-wide outcomes and several prior-role dates remain unestablished.
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The single broad person-specific web query was reused across adverse-topic rows; separate investigations of each topic and prior employer remain incomplete.