ORION MINERALS LIMITED - Orion Minerals receives prestigious award for pioneering ESG achievements in South Africa

Orion Minerals receives prestigious award for pioneering ESG achievements in South Africa

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” or “the Company”)


Orion Minerals receives prestigious award for pioneering ESG achievements in South Africa


Orion Minerals Limited (ASX/JSE: ORN) (Orion or the Company) is pleased to advise that it received the inaugural
Emerging ESG Leader Award at last night’s AAMEG Africa Awards (AAMEG – The Australia-Africa Minerals & Energy
Group) for its innovative and pioneering environmental, social and governance (ESG) work at the Prieska Copper-
Zinc Project in South Africa’s Northern Cape Province.

The AAMEG Africa Awards, which were announced as part of the 2020 Africa Down Under Conference in Perth,
celebrate visionary approaches to ESG which deliver long term benefits for communities—vastly improving their
outcomes across employment, health, education and environmental conservation.

The awards set the benchmark for Australian mining companies delivering projects that have sustainable and
tangible benefits to the communities and countries in which they operate.

The Emerging ESG Leadership Award acknowledges Orion’s exemplary work as a junior mining company in
developing innovative ESG strategies, forging meaningful relationships with its host communities and, importantly,
making a significant contribution to the socio-economic development of South Africa’s Northern Cape Province.

In announcing the award, AAMEG said Orion had implemented world-class ESG initiatives at the exploration-
feasibility stage, earning its local licence to operate and proving that small companies can inspire positive change
at a host government, regional and community level.

AAMEG said that not only had Orion taken its flagship Prieska Project from prospect to a fully-permitted
development project in record time, it has almost single-handedly put junior mining back on the South African
national agenda.

Through the Orion team’s efforts, junior mining has found its voice in South Africa – in government, amongst its peers,
and in the advocacy organisations that guide and represent the industry.                                      

Orion’s dynamic approach and exemplary leadership role has resulted in junior exploration earning a seat at the
national negotiating table, in junior exploration companies having a say in how mining regulations impact them
and in the potential of tax incentives to encourage further exploration in the country. This is all before producing
its first metal.

“We hope to inspire a new generation of emerging mining companies. By turning the traditional mining approach
to ESG on its head, we have shown the value of meaningful connections and insisting that ESG is a business and
moral imperative,” said Orion Chairman Denis Waddell, who accepted the award.

“We decided right from the outset that we need a social licence to operate,” he said. “The work that we have
done has resulted in some real shifts in South Africa’s approach to junior mining and the role it can play in socio-
economic development.”


For and on behalf of the Board.


Errol Smart
Managing Director and CEO


ENQUIRIES

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 Errol Smart – Managing Director & CEO       Nicholas Read                                Monique Martinez
 Denis Waddell – Chairman                    Read Corporate, Australia                    Merchantec Capital
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 E: info@orionminerals.com.au                E: nicholas@readcorporate.com.au             E: monique@merchantec.co.za


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Date: 05-11-2020 07:20:00
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