ORION MINERALS LIMITED - Orion Appoints Experienced Mining Executive Michael Hulmes as Non-Executive Director

Orion Appoints Experienced Mining Executive Michael Hulmes as Non-Executive Director

Orion Minerals NL
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 Executive Michael Hulmes as Non-Executive Director


Orion Minerals Ltd (ASX/JSE: ORN) (Orion or the Company) is pleased to advise that
Mr Michael Hulmes has been appointed as a non-executive director of Orion.

Mr Hulmes is a mining engineer with over 30 years’ senior executive, management
and corporate experience in mining operations and projects in Australia, Papua New
Guinea, Portugal, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania and China. As former Managing
Director Iberia Operations (Lundin Mining’s Iberian operations), Michael was
responsible for the large 4.5Mtpa Neves-Corvo – VMS Copper Zinc and the 1.9Mtpa
Aguablanca - Copper Nickel Mines in Portugal and Spain respectively. Prior roles also
include, General Manager Operations at the Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea,
COO for Citadel Resources during the development of the Jabal Sayid deposit in
Saudi Arabia, General Manager – Australian Operations for Barrick Australia and
General Manager of Plutonic Gold Mine in Western Australia. Michael was most
recently the General Manager of the Caijiaying Zinc/Gold Mine (Hebei Province,
China) at Huaao Mining Industry Company.

Following Mr Hulmes’ appointment, the Company also advises that Mr William Oliver
has agreed to step down as a non-executive Director, effective immediately, in order
to focus on his other business interests. The Board wishes to thank Mr Oliver for his
contribution to Orion over the past five years and wishes him the very best for the
future.

Orion’s Chairman, Denis Waddell, said he was pleased to have further strengthened
the board with the appointment of someone of Michael Hulmes’ technical and
operations expertise. “The Orion Board is very pleased to appoint someone with
Michael’s extensive mining operations background. Michael is particularly well suited
to complement and enhance the Board composition and to assist our operations
team, as the Company focuses on completing the Bankable Feasibility Study on the
Prieska Zinc-Copper Project located in the Northern Cape of South Africa, which will
establish the Company as a significant new participant in the global base metal
sector.”, he said.


Denis Waddell
Chairman

18 April 2018

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