Brett Smith
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Mount Gibson’s 2025 Annual General Meeting. I’m Brett Smith. I’m the Chairman — or the new Chairman of the company, and I welcome you all to this meeting. We’ve elected to hold this as a hybrid, which enables shareholders who can’t attend in person to dial in on the Compuserve platform.
Firstly, I’d like to introduce my fellow nonexecutive directors, Simon, put your hand up mate. Alan, Paul and Evian and our executive team, Peter, Gill and David here, Cote.
Okay. A copy of our 2024 annual general meeting is available for inspection at the entrance to the room. So if you want to grab one, grab one. Okay.
Moving to Slide 2. I’m advised that we have a quorum, and therefore, I formally declare the meeting open, and I’ll begin with my Chairman’s address, followed by the formal business and then the CEO’s address. Following that, all of the shareholders are invited to ask any questions they wish and to have a cup of tea and have a cup of coffee with us afterwards.
Okay. I’m Brett. I’m the new Chairman, I’m glad to be able to speak to you guys for the first time as Chairman. The recent incident at Koolan has changed what we were probably going to say to you, but it’s a significant rockfall, and we’ve had to suspend the mining in the Main Pit. It’s a significant safety risk and a little story from my past. Once upon a time, I was a engineer up at Mt Isa and doing a shutdown of the lid smelter and a load separated and fell and killed











