ORION MINERALS LIMITED - Orion Appoints Experienced Mining Executives Anthony Lennox and Patience Mpofu as Non-Executive Directors

Orion Appoints Experienced Mining Executives Anthony Lennox and Patience Mpofu as Non-Executive Directors

Orion Minerals Limited
Incorporated in the Commonwealth of Australia
Australian Company Number 098 939 274
ASX share code: ORN
JSE share code: ORN
ISIN: AU000000ORN1


Orion Appoints Experienced Mining Executives Anthony Lennox and Patience Mpofu as Non-
Executive Directors


Orion Minerals Ltd (ASX/JSE: ORN) (Orion or the Company) is pleased to advise that Mr Anthony Lennox and Ms
Patience Mpofu have been appointed as a non-executive directors of Orion.

Anthony (Tony) Lennox

Tony has forty years of resource sector experience in operations, project development and corporate
management and contains thirty-five years of leading people and twenty years of board experience.

Tony is an experienced mining engineer with extensive underground and open cut experience in both coal and
base metals. Importantly his career includes Managing Director & CEO of Palabora Mining Company Ltd from
2010 - 2013, which was owned by Rio Tinto Copper, South Africa. Palabora is one of South Africa's oldest and most
revered large mining operations having been in operation since 1956. Palabora was renowned as a highly
efficient, large scale underground mechanised mining operation under his stewardship.

With over 10 years in Africa at Managing Director and Chairman levels he brings skills in governance, strategy
development and execution in complex and culturally diverse arenas. This, when added to his technical and
leadership skills, has resulted in commercial and sustainable business solutions under his watch.

Tony's career with Rio Tinto, BHP, and Shell Australia, included leading world class start-ups, global corporate
safety, health and environment functions, project financial evaluation, Board governance input, risk
management, stakeholder management, and turnaround businesses, which brings accomplished skills to the
Orion Board.

Patience Mpofu

Patience is an award-winning mining executive with +15 years of experience of cross-functional resources industry
experience. As a previous Vice President of a leading ASX listed mining company, Patience led multidisciplinary
teams to develop integrated sustainability strategies that drove business results, reduced risk, and improved the
company's reputation. Patience has strong ESG leadership experience across a broad range of roles including
devising global commercial strategies to create value. As a metallurgist by training, her technical proficiency
underpins her comprehensive understanding of the mining sector.

Currently, as CEO and Principal Consultant of Insight Mining Experts (IME), Dr. Mpofu offers unparalleled insights
into global mining trends, risks, and ESG practices, especially in the context of energy transition.

Patience's career with South 32, Lonmin PLC, and Anglo-American, included roles as VP Corporate Affairs,
Commercial Manager, Senior Manager Business Development, Senior Strategy Manager, Planning analyst and
Lead Metallurgist brings extensive experience to the Orion Board across multiple disciplines.


Orion's Chairman, Denis Waddell, commented:
"We are very pleased to have further strengthened the Orion Board with the appointment of Tony and Patience,
given their extensive skill sets including technical, operational, commercial, ESG and community/stakeholder
expertise, particularly as Orion transitions to a producer of future facing metals."
For and on behalf of the Board.




Denis Waddell
Chairman


13 December 2023



ENQUIRIES

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