|
Executive Chair’s Letter
|
2
|
|
Six Months in Review
|
3
|
|
Directors’ report
|
5
|
|
Auditor’s independence declaration
|
16
|
|
Remuneration report
|
17
|
|
Statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income
|
46
|
|
Statement of financial position
|
47
|
|
Statement of changes in equity
|
48
|
|
Statement of cash flows
|
49
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
50
|
|
Consolidated entity disclosure statement
|
76
|
|
Directors’ declaration
|
77
|
|
Independent auditor’s report to the members of ioneer Limited
|
78
|
|
Mineral resource and ore reserves
|
80
|
|
Glossary and abbreviations
|
83
|
|
Schedule of tenements
|
84
|
|
Shareholder information
|
85
|
|
Corporate directory
|
87
|


|
6 months ended
31 Dec 25
|
12 months ended
30 Jun 25
|
Change
|
Change
|
|||||||||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
%
|
|||||||||||||
|
Operating cash flows
|
(3,069
|
)
|
(6,805
|
)
|
3,736
|
(55
|
%)
|
|||||||||
|
Investing cash flows
|
(6,329
|
)
|
(13,830
|
)
|
7,501
|
(54
|
%)
|
|||||||||
|
Financing cash flows
|
1,982
|
10,202
|
(8,220
|
)
|
(81
|
%)
|
||||||||||
|
Total change in cash used in the financial period
|
(7,416
|
)
|
(10,433
|
)
|
3,017
|
|||||||||||
|
6 months
ended
31 Dec 25
|
12 months
ended
30 Jun 25
|
Change
|
Change
|
|||||||||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
%
|
|||||||||||||
|
Net cash
|
17,863
|
25,059
|
(7,196
|
)
|
(29
|
%)
|
||||||||||
|
Capitalised exploration
|
5,850
|
15,300
|
(9,450
|
)
|
(62
|
%)
|
||||||||||
|
Net assets
|
230,219
|
230,298
|
(79
|
)
|
-
|
|||||||||||
|
Net loss after tax
|
(4,070
|
)
|
(9,554
|
)
|
5,484
|
(57
|
%)
|
|||||||||
|
31 Dec 25
|
30 June 25
|
Change
|
Change
|
|||||||||||||
|
Summary of mineral resources and ore reserves
|
mt
|
mt
|
mt
|
%
|
||||||||||||
|
Mineral Resource:
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Measured
|
158
|
152
|
6
|
4
|
%
|
|||||||||||
|
Indicated
|
282
|
261
|
21
|
8
|
%
|
|||||||||||
|
Inferred
|
108
|
97
|
11
|
11
|
%
|
|||||||||||
|
Total Mineral Resource
|
548
|
510
|
38
|
|||||||||||||
|
Proved
|
92
|
86
|
6
|
7
|
%
|
|||||||||||
|
Probable
|
174
|
161
|
13
|
8
|
%
|
|||||||||||
|
Total Ore Reserve
|
266
|
247
|
19
|
|||||||||||||
|
(1)
|
For further detail on Mineral Resource and Ore Reserve, refer to page 80.
|
| ● |
Health, safety and environmental risks are of critical importance in ensuring we safely and responsibly build and operate a
sustainable business.
|
| ● |
Global economic conditions - Economic conditions, both domestic and global, may affect the performance of
the Company and the Project. Adverse changes in macroeconomic conditions, including global and country‐specific growth rates, the cost and availability of credit, the rate of inflation, interest rates, exchange rates, government policy
and regulations, general consumption and consumer spending, input costs, employment rates and industrial disruptions, among others, are variables which while generally outside the control of the Company and its Directors, may result in
material adverse impacts on the Company’s businesses and its operational and financial performance.
|
| ● |
Execution of the Project - As the Company progresses the development of its Rhyolite Ridge Project, there
are risks and uncertainties involved which could result in the Company not delivering on its anticipated timing for future milestones, including those for permitting, taking a Final Investment Decision and for construction. Upon
construction commencing, the Company and the Project will be subject to risks associated with construction of Stage 1 of the Project until such time as practical completion of construction and first production is achieved.
|
| ● |
Funding risk - The Company's continued ability to operate the Project and effectively implement its business
plan over time will depend in part on its ability to raise funds for operations and growth activities. As announced on 20 January 2025, the Company has closed a US$996 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Office
("DOE LPO") via the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program to support the development of an on-site processing facility at the Project. To the extent that the conditions precedent under the DOE LPO Loan are unable to be
satisfied or waived, such funding will become unavailable to the Company and would require the Company to find alternative funding sources. There can be no guarantee that the Company will be able to raise sufficient funding on acceptable
terms, or at all, to fund the Project. Funding terms may also place restrictions on the manner in which the Company conducts its business and impose limitations on the Company’s ability to execute on its business plan and growth
strategies. An inability to obtain finance on acceptable terms, or at all, may cause, among other things, substantial delays in, or prevent, the funding of the Project to Final Investment Decision, and in turn the development or operation
of the Project.
|
| ● |
Partner risk - Construction at the Project will begin following a successful Final Investment Decision
("FID"), which is subject to the Company's ability to secure an equity partner to help see the Project into production via the strategic partnership process recommenced in Q2 of 2025 ("Strategic Partnership Process"). There can be no
assurance that the Strategic Partnering Process will be successful, nor any certainty that the Company will make the FID to commence construction.
|
| ● |
Offtake risk, including volume and price risks associated with the
sale of technical grade lithium carbonate and boric acid, counterparty risk and contract terms. Pricing of lithium is likely to be largely subject to the rate of uptake in electric vehicles. The Company has entered into binding offtake
agreements and distribution and sales agreements for the supply of boric acid from the Project. There is a risk that the parties to the agreements may not perform their respective obligations or may breach the agreements. The offtake
agreements include conditions precedent that include the timing of the Final Investment Decision and first production. There can be no guarantee that the Company will be able to renegotiate these conditions precedent on acceptable terms
should there be delays in the Project.
|
| ● |
Litigation risk - The Company and the Project may be involved in litigation and disputes from time to time
with its contractors, sub-contractors, contractual counterparties and other parties. Litigation and disputes can be costly, including amounts payable in respect of judgments and settlements made against, or agreed to by, the Company or
Project entities. They can also take up significant time and attention from management and the Board and have an impact on the Company's activities. Accordingly, the Company’s involvement in litigation and disputes could have an adverse
impact on its financial position and performance.
|
| ● |
Reserves and Resources risk - No assurance can be given that the estimated Ore Reserve and Mineral
Resources are accurate or that the indicated level of lithium refined materials, carbonate, boric acid or any other mineral products will be achieved. Such estimates are largely based on interpretations of geological data obtained from
drill holes and other sampling techniques. Actual mineralisation or geological conditions may be different from those predicted. No assurance can be given that any or all of the Company’s Mineral Resources constitute or will be converted
into Ore Reserve. Actual Ore Reserve and Mineral Resources may differ from those estimated, which could have a positive or negative effect on the Company's financial performance.
|
| ● |
Sovereign risk - relating to the fiscal, tax and regulatory environment in jurisdictions that Ioneer does
business. The Company’s and the Project's operations could be adversely affected by government actions in the U.S. or other countries or jurisdictions in which it has operational exposures or investment or exploration interests. This
includes increasing regulations and costs associated with climate change and management of carbon emissions, and potential delays as a result of any change in federal administration in the coming U.S. federal elections.
|
| ● |
Social licence to operate - Maintaining the Company's social licence to operate by proactively engaging with
communities, regulators and other key stakeholders.
|
| ● |
Cyber security - Ensuring our cyber security through the integrity, availability and confidentiality of data
within our information and technology systems from either intentional or unintentional disruption ('cyber attack').
|
| ● |
Climate change - Managing exposures of physical climate change such as increased frequency of extreme
weather events including severe weather storms, floods, drought and wildfires which could damage Ioneer's future production infrastructure and operations.
|
|
Name:
|
James D Calaway
|
|
|
Title:
|
Executive Chair
|
|
|
Qualifications:
|
BA (Econ), MA (PP&E)
|
|
|
Experience and expertise:
|
James has considerable experience and success in building young companies into successful commercial enterprises. He was the non-executive chairman
Orocobre Ltd for 8 years until his retirement in July 2016, helping lead the company from its earliest development to becoming a significant producer of lithium carbonate and a member of the ASX 300.
James was appointed a director in April 2017 and has served as Chair since 2017. He was appointed executive chair in July 2020.
|
|
|
Other current directorships:
|
James is currently chairman of Distributed Power Partners (appointed 2014), a US international distributed power development company which is a
leader of clustered distributed solar power development.
|
|
|
Former directorships (last 3 years):
|
He has also been a chair of several other U.S. corporate boards including the Centre for Houston's Future, and the Houston Independent School
District Foundation.
|
|
|
Special responsibilities:
|
Member of the EHSS Committee
|
|
Name:
|
Bernard Rowe
|
|
|
Title:
|
Managing Director & CEO
|
|
|
Qualifications:
|
BAppSc (Geology) (Hons)
|
|
|
Experience and expertise:
|
Bernard is a geologist, manager and company director with more than 30 years’ international experience in mineral exploration and mine development.
His diverse industry experience includes gold, copper, zinc, diamond, lithium and boron exploration in Australia, Europe, Africa, North America and South America.
Bernard was appointed managing director in August 2007. He led the Company's listing on the ASX in 2007 with a focus on gold and copper exploration
in Nevada and Peru.
In early 2016, Bernard visited a little-known lithium-boron deposit in southern Nevada - later to be renamed Rhyolite Ridge. He realised the
potential opportunity and quickly secured the Project.
Bernard is a member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists, the Society of Economic Geologist and the Geological Society of Nevada.
|
|
|
Other current directorships:
|
G50 Corporation (ASX: G50) (2021 - current)
|
|
|
Special responsibilities:
|
Member of the Project Execution Committee
|
|
Name:
|
Alan Davies
|
|
|
Title:
|
Independent Non-executive Director
|
|
|
Qualifications:
|
B.Bus (Accounting), LLB, LLM
|
|
|
Experience and expertise:
|
Alan has 20 years of experience in running and leading mining businesses, most recently as chief executive, Energy & Minerals with Rio Tinto.
Former roles include chief executive, Diamonds & Minerals and chief financial officer of Rio Tinto Iron Ore. Alan has held management positions in Australia, London and the US, and has run and managed operations in Africa, Asia,
Australia, Europe and North and South America. He is also a former director of Rolls Royce Holdings plc. This experience includes industrial minerals and more specifically borates, where he led the Rio Tinto Borax business and the Jadar
lithium-boron deposit in Serbia.
Alan joined the board as a non-executive director in May 2017.
|
|
|
Other current directorships:
|
He is currently the chief executive officer of Moxico Resources plc, a Zambian copper and zinc explorer and developer (appointed March 2017). He is
also Chairman of Trigem DMCC, a vertically integrated diamond and colour stone service provider (appointed March 2018).
|
|
|
Special responsibilities:
|
Chair of the Nomination & Remuneration Committee
Member of the Audit & Risk Committee (resigned 25 February 2026)
Member of the Project Execution Committee
|
|
Name:
|
Rose McKinney-James
|
|
|
Title:
|
Independent Non-executive Director
|
|
|
Qualifications:
|
Juris Doctorate Law, BA Liberal Arts, NACD Fellow, NACD Director 100
|
|
|
Experience and expertise:
|
Rose is an experienced public company director, clean energy advocate, and small business leader with a broad history in public service, private
sector corporate sustainability, social impact, and non-profit volunteerism. She also served as Nevada’s first Director of the Department of Business and Industry.
Rose joined the board as a non-executive director in February 2021.
Rose is a Nevada-based expert in environmental business and technology policy, renewable and clean energy advocacy, and sustainable development. She
directed the Department of Business and Industry, Nevada's largest state agency and was recognised for services to the Nevada business community. As the former CEO of CSTRR, solar and renewable energy company, she is credited with
authoring the strategy to fast track the integration of renewable resource into utility energy portfolios. Rose is also the former Commissioner, Nevada Public Service Commission.
|
|
|
Other current directorships:
|
Rose currently serves as a non-executive director of MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) (appointed 2005), Toyota Financial Savings Bank
(appointed 2006), Pacific Premier Bancorp Inc (NASDAQ: PPBI) (appointed March 2022), Clean Energy for America (appointed 2021), and the Las Vegas Stadium Authority (appointed 2024).
|
|
|
Special responsibilities:
|
Chair of the EHSS Committee
Member of the Nomination & Remuneration Committee
|
|
Name:
|
Margaret R Walker
|
|
|
Title:
|
Independent Non-executive Director
|
|
|
Qualifications:
|
B.S. Chem Engineering, NACD Certified Director/Fellow
|
|
|
Experience and expertise:
|
Margaret is a chemical engineer with significant experience working across the chemical, engineering and construction sectors. She brings over 40
years’ experience and leadership in large-scale chemical engineering, project management and organisational development gained through a career as a chemical engineer with The Dow Chemical Company. She has deep experience in constructing
and successfully bringing into production complex projects.
Margaret joined the board as a non-executive director in February 2021.
Margaret holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Texas Tech University, and in 2018 became a National Association of Corporate
Directors Board Leadership Fellow.
|
|
|
Other current directorships:
|
Margaret currently serves as a non-executive director of Independent Project Analysis Inc., a privately held firm that drives improvement in capital
performance (appointed January 2011).
Methanex (TSX:MX, NASDAQ: MEOH) (2015 – 2025).
|
|
|
Special responsibilities:
|
Chair of the Project Execution Committee
Member of the Audit & Risk Committee
Member of the EHSS Committee
|
|
Name:
|
Timothy Woodall
|
|
|
Title:
|
Independent Non-executive Director
|
|
|
Age:
|
Tim previously served as a non-executive director (and executive director) of FAR Limited (August 2017 to June 2021) and Central Petroleum.
|
|
|
Qualifications:
|
BEc, FCPA, FAICD
|
|
|
Experience and expertise:
|
Tim has over 30 years’ experience in international M&A and finance, specialising in the energy sector. His expertise includes being the founder
and Managing Director of a boutique advisory firm, the CEO of a technical consulting firm and senior roles in New York and London with global investment banks. Additionally, he has held senior executive positions with energy companies in
Australia and the USA.
Tim joined the board as a non-executive director in May 2025.
Tim holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Adelaide, is a Fellow of the Australian Society of CPAs, and a Fellow of the Australian
Institute of Company Directors.
|
|
|
Other current directorships:
|
None.
|
|
|
Former directorships (last 3 years):
|
Tim previously served as a non-executive director (and executive director) of FAR Limited (August 2017 to June 2021) and Central Petroleum.
|
|
|
Special responsibilities:
|
Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee
Member of the Nomination & Remuneration Committee
|
|
James Calaway
Executive Chair
|
James’ biography is shown in the Director’s qualifications and experience section of the report.
|
|
|
Ian Bucknell
Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary
B. Bus (Accounting), FCPA, GAICD
|
Ian joined Ioneer in November 2018 as Chief Financial Officer and became Company Secretary in April 2019.
Ian was responsible for the finance, investor relations, IT and company secretarial functions of the Company. He has more than 25 years of
international resource sector experience, most recently as Chief Financial Officer of AWE Limited and prior to that held the position as Chief Financial Officer, and at times Company Secretary of Drillsearch Energy Limited.
Ian Bucknell resigned as Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary effective 4 December 2025.
|
|
|
Bernard Rowe
Managing Director
|
Bernard’s biography is shown in the Director’s qualifications and experience section of the report.
|
|
|
April Hashimoto
Chief Financial Officer (effective 4 Dec 2025)
B.A (Economics), MBA, CPA (Canada)
|
April joined Ioneer as Interim CFO on 6 November 2025. Ian Bucknell resigned as Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary effective 4 December
2025.
April is responsible for the finance and IT functions of the Company. She has more than 30 years of international resource sector experience, most
recently as Senior Vice-President, Finance and Administration at Lithium Americas Corp. Previously she was CFO at several junior mining companies and the exploration and construction division of Placer Dome Inc.
|
|
|
Ken Coon
Vice President Human Resources
BS Bus. Administration (Human Resources)
|
Ken is responsible for the human resource function of the company. He has more than 30 years of human resources experience holding international and
regional leadership roles with Royal Dutch Shell’s downstream and refining and chemicals organization and Entergy, a large US Gulf Coast utility company.
|
|
|
Yoshio Nagai
Vice President Commercial Sales & Marketing
|
Yoshio is responsible for the sales and marketing function of the company. He has more than 20 years chemical and mining industry sales and
marketing experience, most recently as Sales Vice President at the Rio Tinto Group Company accountable for borates, salt and talc products, in Asia and the USA.
|
|
|
Matt Weaver
Senior Vice President Engineering & Operations
|
Matt is responsible for all engineering and operational aspects of the Rhyolite Ridge lithium-boron Project in Nevada and for delivering the project
through the Definitive Feasibility Study and project execution and into full commercial production. He has 30 years international mining experience, having worked with BHP, Rio Tinto and Newmont, and several junior mining companies.
|
|
|
Chad Yeftich
Vice President Corporate Development & External Affairs
|
Chad is responsible for the Government and community relations, and U.S. Investor Relations and financing functions of the Company. He has over 20
years finance and investment industry experience. Chad has held several analyst and portfolio management roles over that time at firms such as Maverick Capital, H.I.G. Capital, Trafelet Brokaw & Company, and PwC. For the last ten
years, he has focused on investing in and helping develop projects around the world that support the electrification of transportation.
|
|
|
Olga Smejkalova (effective 4 December 2025)
|
Olga was appointed Company Secretary on 1 December 2025 pursuant to a services agreement with Acclime Corporate Services Australia Pty Ltd. Ian
Bucknell resigned as Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary effective 4 December 2025.
|
|
Shares held
|
Options held
|
PRs held
|
Shares held
|
Options held
|
PRs held
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
at 31-Dec-25
|
at 31-Dec-25
|
at 31-Dec-25
|
at report date
|
at report date
|
at report date
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
James D Calaway
|
63,595,869
|
-
|
7,206,821
|
63,595,869
|
-
|
7,206,821
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Bernard Rowe
|
78,806,195
|
-
|
16,198,505
|
78,806,195
|
-
|
16,198,505
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Alan Davies
|
5,914,149
|
-
|
188,083
|
5,914,149
|
-
|
188,083
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Rose McKinney-James
|
802,260
|
-
|
188,083
|
802,260
|
-
|
188,083
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Margaret R Walker
|
1,155,380
|
-
|
188,083
|
1,155,380
|
-
|
188,083
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Timothy Woodall
|
375,000
|
-
|
388,083
|
375,000
|
-
|
388,083
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
150,648,853
|
-
|
24,357,658
|
150,648,853
|
-
|
24,357,658
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
Full Board
|
Nomination and
Remuneration Committee
|
Audit and Risk Committee
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Attended
|
Held
|
Attended
|
Held
|
Attended
|
Held
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
James D Calaway
|
3
|
3
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Bernard Rowe
|
3
|
3
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Alan Davies
|
1
|
3
|
2
|
2
|
-
|
2
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Rose McKinney-James
|
3
|
3
|
2
|
2
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Margaret R Walker
|
3
|
3
|
-
|
-
|
2
|
2
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Timothy Woodall
|
3
|
3
|
2
|
2
|
2
|
2
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Project Execution
|
EHSS
|
|||||||||||||||
|
Attended
|
Held
|
Attended
|
Held
|
|||||||||||||
|
James D Calaway
|
-
|
-
|
1
|
1
|
||||||||||||
|
Bernard Rowe
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||
|
Alan Davies
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||
|
Rose McKinney-James
|
-
|
-
|
1
|
1
|
||||||||||||
|
Margaret R Walker
|
-
|
-
|
1
|
1
|
||||||||||||
|
Timothy Woodall
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||
|
Director
|
Audit & Risk
|
Nomination &
Remuneration
|
Project Execution
|
EHSS
|
||||||||||||
|
James D Calaway
|
1
|
|||||||||||||||
|
Bernard Rowe
|
1
|
|||||||||||||||
|
Alan Davies
|
1 |
1*
|
|
1
|
||||||||||||
|
Rose McKinney-James
|
1
|
1*
|
||||||||||||||
|
Margaret R Walker
|
1
|
1*
|
1
|
|||||||||||||
|
Timothy Woodall
|
1*
|
|
1
|
|||||||||||||
|
(1)
|
The chair of each committee is denoted by an asterisk. They are all independent non-executive directors.
|
|
31 Dec 2025
|
30 Jun 25
|
|||||||
|
Issued shares
|
2,674,633,957
|
2,608,172,516
|
||||||
|
Options
|
-
|
1,613,615
|
||||||
|
Performance rights
|
76,665,845
|
63,290,529
|
||||||
|
2,751,299,802
|
2,673,076,660
|
|||||||
| ● |
No performance rights have vested, and 400,000,0000 new shares were issued.
|
| ● |
No performance rights have lapsed.
|
| ● |
all non-audit services have been reviewed and approved to ensure that they do not impact the integrity and objectivity of the auditor; and
|
| ● |
none of the services undermine the general principles relating to auditor independence as set out in APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants issued by the Accounting Professional and Ethical
Standards Board, including reviewing or auditing the auditor's own work, acting in a management or decision-making capacity for the company, acting as advocate for the company or jointly sharing economic risks and rewards.
|
| /s/ James D Calaway | |
|
James D Calaway
|
|
|
Executive Chairman
|
|
|
18 March 2026
|
|
| • |
Realization of previously identified optimization opportunities to reduce total leach duration times from 3 days (in the Definitive Feasibility Study (“DFS)) to 2 days (announced in
September 2025) to 1.5 days (announced in October 2025) resulting in substantial improvements to the project economics of Rhyolite Ridge, including unlevered NPV improving by 64% to US$2.2 billion and unlevered IRR improving by 24% to
18%.
|
| • |
Maintain a high standard of performance with respect to safety, achieving no Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) incidents.
|
| • |
Fiscal discipline resulting in spending levels 6% below the approved budget for TY2025
|
| • |
Secured modified air and water permits from the State of Nevada, reached agreement on water rights with Esmeralda County and State of Nevada Regional Water Authority and established a
standard approach for transfer of future water rights
|
| • |
The strategic partner process was delayed and subsequently extended, reflecting significant headwinds that persisted, which resulted in delays to achieving a positive Final Investment
Decision (“FID”) and subsequent commencement of construction of the Rhyolite Ridge project.
|
| • |
Advancement of the Tiehm’s Buckwheat planting and transplanting plans were delayed as regulatory approvals were delayed by the U.S. Government shutdown in the second half of 2025.
|
| • |
STIP scorecard assessment, and consequently payment outcomes were materially lower, below target, and reflective of mixed outcomes and shareholder experience
|
| • |
The Board decided to discontinue, with immediate effect, the Company’s practice of giving employees, including executive KMPs, the option to receive a 20% uplift in payment of STI by both
deferring the payment for one year and converting the cash payment to equity. While the policy change is not as effective at conserving cash, or encouraging ownership, the Board assessed the risk as minimal, and addressed the concerns
raised by proxy advisers in this instance.
|
| • |
No one-off equity grants were made.
|
|
Act
|
Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
|
LTI
|
Long-term incentive
|
||
|
AGM
|
Annual General Meeting
|
MD
|
Managing director
|
||
|
ASX
|
Australian Securities Exchange
|
NED
|
Non-executive director
|
||
|
FID
|
Final Investment Decision
|
PRs
|
Performance Rights
|
||
|
FY
|
Financial Year
|
SRs
|
Share Rights
|
||
|
INR
|
Ioneer
|
Equity Plan
|
Equity Incentive Plan
|
||
|
KMP
|
Key management personnel
|
STI
|
Short-term incentive
|
||
|
TY2025
|
Transition period 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025
|
Project
|
Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project
|
| 1. |
Introduction
|
| 2.1. |
Key Management Personnel
|
|
Name
|
Position Held
|
Tenure
|
|
|
Executive Directors
|
|||
|
James D Calaway
|
Executive chair
|
Appointed 5 April 2017
|
|
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Bernard Rowe
|
Managing director
|
Appointed 23 August 2007
|
|
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Non-Executive Directors
|
|||
|
Alan Davies
|
Non-executive director
|
Appointed 23 May 2017
|
|
|
Stephen Gardiner
|
Non-executive director
|
Appointed 25 August 2022,
Resigned 5 May 2025
|
|
|
Rose McKinney-James
|
Non-executive director
|
Appointed 1 February 2021
|
|
|
Margaret R Walker
|
Non-executive director
|
Appointed 1 February 2021
|
|
|
Timothy Woodall
|
Non-executive director
|
Appointed 5 May 2025
|
|
|
Executives
|
|||
|
Ken Coon
|
Vice president human resources
|
Appointed 1 July 2019
|
|
|
April Hashimoto 1
|
Interim chief financial officer
|
Appointed 6 November 2025
|
|
|
Ian Bucknell 1
|
Chief financial officer and company secretary
|
Resigned 4 December 2025
|
|
|
Yoshio Nagai
|
Vice president commercial sales & marketing
|
Appointed 1 August 2019
|
|
|
Matt Weaver
|
Senior vice president engineering & operations
|
Appointed 28 November 2017
|
|
|
Chad Yeftich
|
Vice president corporate development & external affairs
|
Appointed 1 September 2022
|
|
| (1) |
April Hashimoto became an executive KMP effective 4 December 2025 upon the resignation of Ian Bucknell
|
| 2. |
Remuneration governance
|
| 2.1 |
Nomination & Remuneration Committee
|
| • |
Alan Davies (chair);
|
| • |
Rose McKinney-James; and
|
| • |
Timothy Woodall
|
| 2.2 |
Remuneration advisors
|
| 2.3 |
Share trading policy
|
| 2.4 |
Reasons for remuneration “strike”
|
|
Feedback
|
Response
|
|||
|
FY 2025 maximum
total remuneration
quantum too high
|
Ioneer compares executive pay levels to the pay levels of executives in the same geographic markets (primarily the U.S. and Canada, with consideration for Australia) and
industry (resources). The policy is to pay between the 25th percentile and median rates of pay for individuals with the qualifications and experience to do
the role. Actual pay rates approximate policy positioning. Therefore the maximum remuneration quanta is not high, not low; it is just right.
ISS Australia compared our primarily North American executive pay levels and composition for the CEO to the Australian pay levels and composition. Australian pay levels
are lower than US pay levels. Yet this is irrelevant. Much as the board would like to pay less, the fact is that our assets are US based, and managed by majority US based executives. To acquire, and retain, US based executives we have to
pay North American rates of pay. To do otherwise would risk material harm to our business, and consequently shareholder value.
Executive KMP annual base salaries were not increased during TY2025. While the annual LTIP grants are greater as a percentage of salary, they reflect the longer
performance and service periods of 42 months (compared with 36 months) in recognition of the transition of the financial year to a calendar year. The annual percentage of maximum STIP and LTIP opportunity remains unchanged.
|
|||
|
FY2025 Managing
Director’s STIP
outcome was high
whereas the total
shareholder return
during the period
declined.
|
TY2025 STIP scorecard assessment, and consequently payment outcomes were materially lower, below target, and reflective of the shareholder experience.
This included the Board making downwards adjustments to the individual performance ratings for the Managing Director and Executive Chairman, reflecting delays in the
strategic partnering process.
|
|||
|
STIP 20% uplift if
electing to receive as
deferred equity
|
The Board decided to discontinue, with immediate effect, the Company’s practice of giving employees, including executive KMPs, the option to receive a 20% uplift in
payment of STI by both deferring the payment for one year and converting the cash payment to equity. While the policy change is not as effective at conserving cash, or encouraging ownership, the board assessed risk as minimal, and a
unique practice both in Australia and the US, so have addressed the concern of proxy advisers in this instance.
|
|
Feedback
|
Response
|
|||
|
That 40% of the LTI is
service-based
|
ISS incorrectly attributed 40% of the LTIP as subject to service-only vesting. At maximum, only 25% of the LTIP is subject to service. This is less than practice in the
market in which most executive KMP are domiciled. ISS Australia policy does not support the use of time-based equity as it is inconsistent with ‘better market practice’ and shareholder interests. The guidelines do not say why paying
executives in long term equity rather than cash salary is a poor practice and against shareholder interests.
Our purpose is to provide equity in lieu of cash salary for shareholder alignment, cash conservation, consistency with non-KMP employee remuneration, and consistency
with U.S market practice as the majority (approximately 83%) of the Company’s employees are located.
|
|||
|
Relative TSR hurdle
has vesting starting at
the 25th percentile and
lacks a positive TSR
gateway.
|
A positive TSR gateway can lead to binary results. It can be demotivating if relative performance outperforms peers during a challenging market environment.
Our approach to avoid binary outcomes and the drawbacks of a positive TSR gateway has been a modifier. If the share price is 33% lower or higher over the performance
period, the award result will be reduced or increased by 20%. This is consistent with maintaining a vesting schedule that varies vesting with a greater range of relative TSR performance. This permits realised remuneration to reduce for
performance that is poorer than peers, and increase for performance greater than peers.
|
|||
|
LTI milestone
granularity lacking
|
The Board has continued to set LTI targets that assume an FID will be taken and the Project advances into construction and production. While the Board recognises the
desire for milestone granularity, this is not currently practical nor material. The Board has not set specific targets for budgets and schedule because these will not be known until the FID decision is made. The FID decision, on which
vesting is contingent, is material.
|
|||
|
One-off grant under
transition incentive
plan
|
No one-off equity awards were made in TY2025
|
| 3. |
Executive Remuneration
|
| 3.1 |
Remuneration strategy
|
| • |
attract, retain and motivate directors, executives and employees who will create value for shareholders by providing remuneration packages that are aligned with shareholder interests, are
equitable and externally competitive;
|
| • |
provide a remuneration balance weighted toward risk and return to align with shareholders;
|
| • |
clearly align short and long-term company objectives to financial awards;
|
| • |
be fair and appropriate having regard to the performance of the Company and the relevant director, executive or employee and the interests of shareholders;
|
| • |
conserve cash in the development phase of the business by granting equity in lieu of cash where appropriate; and
|
| • |
comply with relevant legal requirements.
|
| 3.2 |
Relationship with company performance
|
| • |
Base salary is reviewed annually and adjusted for individual performance and benchmarks that may be reviewed from time to time to ensure
competitiveness. Executive KMP annual base salaries were not increased during TY2025.
|
| • |
Short term incentives are reviewed annually with awards granted based upon individual performance and Company results. STI targets are benchmarked
from time to time to ensure competitiveness. STIs may range from 0% to 200% of target. The Board reserves the right to grant STI outcomes greater than 200% of target for exceptional contributions to Company objectives, as well as
exercise negative discretion when formulaic outcomes do not align with the shareholder experience. In February 2026, the Board decided to discontinue, with immediate effect, the Company’s practice of giving employees, including KMPs, the
option to receive a 20% uplift in payment of STI by both deferring the payment for one year and converting the cash payment to equity. While the purpose of the practice was to encourage employee retention, increase alignment and conserve
cash, it was a unique practice in the U.S. and Australia, and therefore was discontinued.
|
| • |
Equity grants are reviewed annually. The Board has a practice of granting a target grant ratio with a ratio of 60% performance-based PRs and 40%
time-based PRs. At maximum, the ratio is 75% performance-based and 25% time-based PRs. A key risk for Ioneer is not being able to attract and retain qualified and experienced U.S. executives and senior management. The remuneration
framework is based on optimal shareholder alignment, cash conservation and alignment with U.S. market standards as the jurisdiction in which the majority of our employees are located.
|
| o |
Performance-based PRs comprise 60% of the annual target grant value (75% at maximum). The final vesting may range between 0% to 200% of grant based on achievement of a scorecard of business
objectives suited to the Company’s current pre-production phase, such that if all were achieved, they would add substantially to shareholder value.
|
| o |
Time-based PRs make up 40% of the annual target grant value, equivalent to 25% of maximum potential grant value. Vesting is contingent upon the employee remaining employed to the vesting
date. Time-based PRs are a standard component of compensation in the U.S. market to encourage retention in key positions, which aligns with our ability to deliver results to shareholders; conserves cash that would otherwise have to be
used for higher cash salaries and meets U.S. market standards.
|
| 3.3 |
Remuneration framework – linking reward to performance
|
| • |
Annual base salary: reviewed annually and adjusted based upon individual performance and competitive benchmarks that may be reviewed from time to
time to ensure competitiveness.
|
| • |
Post-employment benefits: superannuation contributions for Australian based executives and similar retirement benefits savings for non-Australia based
executives.
|
| • |
Total Fixed Remuneration (TFR): Annual base salary plus superannuation for Australia based executives and annual base salary for non-Australia based
executives.
|
| • |
Short-term incentive (STI): Remuneration for performance measured over one year or less, including any deferred amounts.
|
| • |
Equity incentive grants: Performance and/or time-based equity granted under shareholder approved equity plans.
|

| 3.3.1 |
Base Salary
|
|
Base salary 1
|
% Increase
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
||
|
|
A$
|
US$
|
A$
|
US$
|
|
|
James D Calaway
|
0%
|
|
250,000
|
-
|
250,000
|
|
Bernard Rowe
|
0%
|
585,000
|
-
|
585,000
|
-
|
|
Ian Bucknell 2
|
0%
|
433,000
|
-
|
433,000
|
-
|
|
April Hashimoto 3
|
-
|
12,710
|
-
|
-
|
|
|
Ken Coon
|
0%
|
-
|
268,000
|
-
|
268,000
|
|
Yoshio Nagai
|
0%
|
-
|
284,000
|
-
|
284,000
|
|
Chad Yeftich
|
0%
|
|
292,000
|
-
|
292,000
|
|
Matt Weaver
|
0%
|
-
|
333,000
|
-
|
333,000
|
| (1) |
Base salaries are shown in the above table at contract amounts. Where executive KMP have not worked a full-time load or superannuation caps have been met and excess amounts taken as salary,
it will not agree with the table in the “Statutory Remuneration” section below. April Hashimoto was appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer on 6 November 2025 pursuant to a consulting services contract whereby she is compensated based
on an hourly rate. April Hashimoto invoiced the Company for US$12,710 for services she provided during the period in TY2025 that she was an executive KMP (4 December 2025 to 31 December 2025).
|
| (2) |
Ian Bucknell resigned as Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary effective 4 December 2025.
|
| (3) |
April Hashimoto was appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer on 6 November 2025 pursuant to a consulting contract by which she is paid based on an hourly rate. The amount shown as base pay
reflects the amount invoiced under the consulting contract for the period that April Hashimoto was an executive KMP (4 December 2025 to 31 December 2025).
|
| 3.3.2 |
Short-Term Incentive (STI)
|
|
Feature
|
Approach
|
||
|
Purpose
|
Align team and individual performance and behaviours with annual Group objectives.
Provide individuals with a competitive market position for total reward (i.e. variable and fixed pay components).
|
||
|
Eligibility
|
Those considered for participation in the program must be able to impact the performance of their own work area, their business or function and contribute to the
Group’s overall performance.
|
||
|
Form of payment
|
TY2025 STIP was awarded in cash, which is the default form of payment. The Company reserves the right to award STIP as equity if appropriate.
In February 2026, the Board decided to discontinue, with immediate effect, the Company’s practice of giving employees, including executive KMPs, the option to receive
a 20% uplift in payment of STI by both deferring the payment for one year and converting the cash payment to equity.
|
||
|
Opportunity
|
The maximum STI opportunity as a percentage of base salary for the executive KMP with the numbers in brackets reflecting the shorter performance period for TY2025 are
as follows:
Executive Chair: 120% (60% for TY2025)
Managing Director: 160% (80% for TY2025)
Senior Vice President Engineering & Operations: 100% (50% for TY2025)
Interim Chief Financial Officer: 100% (50% for TY2025)
Vice President Human Resources: 80% (40% for TY2025)
Vice President Commercial Sales & Marketing: 80% (40% for TY2025)
Vice President – Corporate Development and External Affairs: 80% (40% for TY2025)
The maximum STI was prorated for the TY2025 six-month performance period (1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025).
Target STI opportunity is half of the maximum STI opportunity.
|
||
|
Performance period
|
Six months from 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025 and thereafter 1 year, 1 January to 31 December
|
||
|
Performance
measures
|
Annual executive KMP performance is set and assessed based upon a set of key Company targets (scorecard) that directly affect shareholder value and are directly linked
to the Ioneer Strategic Plan. This formulaic scorecard outcome is 75% of the executive KMP’s individual STI award.
Each scorecard goal is measured, weighted according to its importance, and assessed quantitatively.
The remaining 25% is the contribution to organisational objectives and performance in role (individual component).
Both the scorecard and individual component can achieve up to 200% of target (100% of maximum).
At the start of each performance period, the Board determines Company hurdles with threshold and maximum performance levels which form the STI goal. Additionally, the
MD reviews and approves the goals of each executive KMP, ensuring alignment with Company objectives.
The target levels of performance set by the Board are challenging and are driven by an annual target setting exercise and longer-term strategic objectives.
Achievement of target levels of performance delivers the payment of 50% of STI maximum opportunity.
|
| Feature | Approach | ||
|
Board discretion
|
The Board reserves the right to grant above 200% of target STI for truly exceptional contributions to the business or to exercise negative discretion if the formulaic
outcome does not accord with the shareholder experience, behaviours not consistent with the Company’s code of conduct, reputational damage, safety or environmental expectations, or the Board’s overall assessment of performance on a
holistic basis.
|
||
|
Clawback
|
The Board can clawback
previous incentive awards that may have been awarded erroneously. The following are examples of such circumstances, including:
• A restatement of any financial measure or target upon which an incentive award was based;
• A restatement of the Company’s financial statements even though the restatement did not involve a metric that was explicitly part of an incentive award
calculation;
• The serious or gross misconduct, fraud, bribery, severe reputational damage, and any other deliberate, reckless, or unlawful conduct that may have a serious adverse impact on Ioneer, its reputation,
customers, the environment, or its people which resulted in dismissal, or the Board considers at its discretion would have justified the dismissal. In exceptional cases, Remco may determine that recovery of incentive awards is
appropriate though dismissal does not occur.
|
||
|
Treatment on
termination
|
If the executive is
deemed a good leaver, STI is rewarded on a pro rata basis for time served. PRs lapse if an employee resigns.
|

| 3.3.3 |
Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Equity Grants
|
|
4.3.3.1
|
Performance-based LTI PRs (performance period 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2028)
|
|
Feature
|
|||
|
Purpose
|
To align executive accountability and remuneration with the long-term interests of shareholders by rewarding for the delivery of sustained performance.
|
||
|
Participants
|
All executive KMP and senior management members.
The Board may at its discretion make invitations to or grant awards to eligible persons. Eligible persons include executive directors or executive officers of the Group,
employees, contractors or consultants of the group or any other person.
|
|
Feature
|
|||
|
Instruments issued
|
Performance rights (PRs) to acquire ordinary shares in the Company for nil consideration.
Within 30 days after the vesting date in respect of a vested instrument, the Company, at its discretion only, must either allocate shares or procure payment to the
participant of a cash amount equal to the market price of the shares which would have otherwise been allocated.
|
||
|
Allocation value
|
10-day VWAP prior to start of the performance period
|
||
|
Maximum value
|
Maximum incentive opportunity as a percentage of base salary is unchanged from FY2025. The numbers in brackets reflect the longer performance period (42 months compared with 36 months) for
TY2025: Amounts are as follows:
Executive Chair: 72% (84% for TY2025)
Managing Director: 144% (168% for TY2025)
Vice President Human Resources: 48% (56% for TY2025)
Vice President Commercial Sales & Marketing: 48% (56% for TY2025)
Senior Vice President Engineering & Operations: 102% (119% for TY2025)
Vice President Corporate Development and External Affairs: 60% (70% for TY2025)
Executive KMP are granted 50% of the maximum number of PRs to vest.
|
||
|
Performance period
|
3.5 years, 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2028 (to transition to a calendar year performance period), thereafter 3 years
|
||
|
Vesting Date
|
As soon as practicable after end of performance period but not later than March 2029
|
||
|
Performance
measures
|
Annually executive KMP performance targets are set and then assessed on a range of key measures that are critical to shareholder value and are directly linked to the
Ioneer Strategic Plan. At this point in the Rhyolite Ridge Project, targets are focused on moving through the Project’s objectives of permitting, engineering, funding and construction.
Each scorecard measure is measured, weighted according to its importance, and is assessed objectively.
At the grant date, the Board determines the hurdles and minimum, target and maximum levels of performance which form the LTI scorecard.
The target levels of performance set by the Board are challenging and are driven by an annual goal setting exercise and the longer-term strategic plan. Achievement of
target levels of performance delivers the payment of 50% of LTI maximum opportunity. Payments from threshold to maximum opportunity are on a straight-line basis consistent with the level of performance attained.
Details can be found in section 4.3.3.2 below.
|
|
Feature
|
|||
|
Acquisition of
performance rights
|
The PRs are issued by the company and held by the participant subject to the satisfaction of the vesting conditions. The number of PRs held may be adjusted pro-rata,
consistent with ASX adjustment factors for any capital restructure.
If the PRs vest, executives receive newly issued shares or shares acquired on market. Trading restrictions may apply to the newly issued shares.
|
||
|
Treatment of
dividends and voting
rights
|
Unvested PRs do not have voting rights or accrue dividend benefits.
|
||
|
Restriction on
hedging
|
Hedging of PRs by executives is not permitted
|
||
|
Treatment on
termination
|
If the executive is deemed a good leaver, PRs are prorated for time served. PRs lapse if an employee resigns.
|
||
|
Board Discretion
|
The board may apply downward discretion as appropriate.
The Company may adjust downwards the number of performance-based PRs where there has been a material negative misstatement of results to align executive awards with
shareholder outcomes.
|
||
|
Clawback
|
The Board can clawback previous incentive awards that may have been awarded erroneously. The following are examples of such circumstances, including:
• A restatement of any financial measure or
target that an incentive award was based upon;
• A restatement of the Company’s financial
statements even though the restatement did not involve a metric that was explicitly part of an incentive award calculation;
• The serious or gross misconduct, fraud, bribery,
severe reputational damage, and any other deliberate, reckless, or unlawful conduct that may have a serious adverse impact on Ioneer, its reputation, customers, the environment, or its people which resulted in dismissal, or the Board
considers at its discretion would have justified the dismissal. In exceptional cases, Remco may determine that recovery of incentive awards is appropriate though dismissal does not occur.
|
||
|
Minimum Share
ownership
|
Executive KMP are expected to achieve a minimum share ownership in the Company over a 5-year period. The minimum level for the Managing Director is 5 times his base
salary. The minimum level for other executives is 3 times their base salaries.
|
||
|
Change of control
|
Vesting is subject to board discretion, taking into account performance to the date of change in control.
|
|
Measure
|
||
|
Strategic Project Drivers
|
|
Measure
|
||||
|
Sustainability Performance (E, H&S, Community).
|
20%
|
|||
|
Construction delivery compared with schedule at FID.
|
20%
|
|||
|
Construction spend compared with budget at FID.
|
10%
|
|||
|
Shareholder Value
|
||||
|
INR share price compared to comparators. The comparators are: Vulcan Energy Resources, Core Lithium, Lake Resources, Sigma Lithium, Sayona Mining, Liontown Resources,
American Lithium, Frontier Lithium Inc, Standard Lithium, Lithium Americas Corp, Piedmont Lithium, Pilbara Minerals, and Critical Elements Lithium.
The vesting scale for the shareholder return component is as follows:
|
30%
|
|||
|
Percentile
|
Vesting outcome (%
target)
|
Vesting outcome (%
maximum)
|
||
|
Bottom quartile (0-25th)
|
0%
|
0%
|
||
|
Third quartile (25th-50th)
|
50%-100%
|
25%-50%
|
||
|
Second quartile (50th-75th)
|
101%-200%
|
50%-100%
|
||
|
First quartile (75th-100th)
|
200%
|
100%
|
||
|
Vesting is on a straight-line basis within each quartile. However, if the share price is 33% lower or higher over the performance period, the award result will be reduced
or increased by 20%.
|
||||
|
Growth – Increase from Measured and Indicated LCE Resource at 30 June 2025 by 10%.
|
20%
|
|||
|
4.3.3.2
|
Time-based LTI PRs
|
|
Feature
|
|||
|
Purpose
|
To provide equity in lieu of cash salary for shareholder alignment, cash conservation, consistency with non-KMP employee remuneration, and consistency with U.S market
practice as the majority (approximately 85%) of the Company’s employees are located in the U.S.
|
||
|
Participants
|
All executive KMP and senior management members
The Board may at its discretion make invitations to or grant awards to eligible persons. Eligible persons include executive directors or executive officers of the
Group, employees, contractors or consultants of the group or any other person.
|
|
Feature
|
|||
|
Instruments issued
|
PRs to acquire ordinary shares in the Company for nil consideration.
Within 30 days after the vesting date in respect of a vested instrument, the Company, at its discretion only, must either allocate shares or procure payment to the
participant of a cash amount equal to the market price of the shares which would have otherwise been allocated.
|
||
|
Allocation value
|
10-day VWAP prior to start of the performance period
|
||
|
Value at grant
|
Maximum time-based PRs opportunity as a percentage of base salary is unchanged from FY2025. The numbers in brackets reflect the longer service period (42 months
compared with 36 months) for TY2025. Amounts are as follows:
Executive Chair: 24% (28% for TY2025)
Managing Director: 48% (56% for TY2025)
Vice President Human Resources: 16% (18.67% for TY2025)
Vice President Commercial Sales & Marketing: 16% (18.67% for TY2025)
Senior Vice President Engineering & Operations: 34% (39.67% for TY2025)
Vice President Corporate Development & External Affairs: 20% (23.33% for TY2025)
|
||
|
Service period
|
3.5 years, 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2028 (to transition to a calendar year performance period), thereafter 3 years.
|
||
|
Service
measurement date
|
31 December 2028
|
||
|
Vesting Date
|
1 January 2029
|
||
|
Acquisition of PRs
|
The PRs are issued by the Company and held by the participant subject to the satisfaction of the vesting conditions. The number of instruments held may be adjusted
pro-rata, consistent with ASX adjustment factors for any capital restructure.
If the PRs vest, executives receive newly issued shares or shares acquired on market. Trading restrictions may apply to the newly issued shares.
|
||
|
Treatment of
dividends and voting
rights
|
Unvested PRs do not have voting rights or accrue dividend benefits.
|
||
|
Restriction on
hedging
|
Hedging of PRs by executives is not permitted
|
||
|
Treatment on
termination
|
If the executive is deemed a good leaver, PRs are prorated for time served. PRs lapse if an employee resigns.
|
||
|
Adjusting Awards
|
The Company may adjust downwards the number of time-based PRs where there has been a material negative misstatement of results to align executive awards with shareholder
outcomes.
|
|
Feature
|
|||
|
Clawback
|
The Board can clawback previous time-based incentive awards that may have been awarded erroneously. The following are examples of such circumstances, including:
• The serious or gross misconduct, fraud, bribery, severe reputational damage, and any other deliberate, reckless, or unlawful conduct that may have a serious adverse impact on Ioneer, its
reputation, customers, the environment, or its people which resulted in dismissal, or the Board considers at its discretion would have justified the dismissal. In exceptional cases, Remco may determine that recovery of incentive awards
is appropriate though dismissal does not occur.
|
||
|
Minimum Share
ownership
|
Executive KMP are expected to achieve a minimum share ownership in the Company over a 5-year period. The minimum level for the Managing Director is five times base
salary. The minimum level for other executives is three times base salaries.
|
||
|
Board Discretion
|
The board may apply discretion as appropriate.
|
||
|
Change of control
|
Vesting is subject to board discretion, taking into account performance to the date of change in control.
|
| 3.4 |
Performance and remuneration outcomes for TY2025
|
| 3.4.1 |
Company performance
|
|
6 months
ended
|
12
months
ended
|
12
months
ended
|
12
months
ended
|
12
months
ended
|
12
months
ended
|
12
months
ended
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
31-Dec-
25
|
30-Jun-25
|
30-Jun-
24
|
30-Jun-
23
|
30-Jun-
22
|
30-Jun-
21
|
30-Jun-
20 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Net Loss after tax (US$’000)
|
(4,070
|
)
|
(9,553
|
)
|
(7,825
|
)
|
(6,391
|
)
|
(8,502
|
)
|
(14,032
|
)
|
(3,700
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||
|
Basic loss per share (US CPS)
|
(0.169
|
)
|
(0.405
|
)
|
(0.336
|
)
|
(0.305
|
)
|
(0.422
|
)
|
(0.803
|
)
|
(0.232
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||
|
Diluted loss per share (US CPS)
|
(0.169
|
)
|
(0.405
|
)
|
(0.336
|
)
|
(0.305
|
)
|
(0.422
|
)
|
(0.803
|
)
|
(0.232
|
)
|
|||||||||||||||
|
Dividends per share
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Closing share price (A$)
|
0.19
|
0.10
|
0.15
|
0.34
|
0.41
|
0.35
|
0.13
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
5-year TSR
|
(33.93
|
%)
|
(22.40
|
%)
|
11.11
|
%
|
(5.56
|
%)
|
182.76
|
%
|
600.00
|
%
|
3150.00
|
%
|
|||||||||||||||

| 3.4.2 |
TY2025 performance and STI outcome (performance period 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025)
|

|
Measure
|
Weighting
|
Outcome as a %
of
|
Total
|
|
|
Target
|
Stretch
|
Outcome
|
||
|
Strategic Partnering
|
40%
|
0%
|
N/A
|
0%
|
|
Improve Project Economics
|
20%
|
100%
|
100%
|
40%
|
|
Adherence to Budget
|
10%
|
100%
|
N/A
|
10%
|
|
Safety
|
5%
|
100%
|
100%
|
10%
|
|
License to Operate – permits and water
|
5%
|
100%
|
N/A
|
5%
|
|
License to Operate – Tiehm’s Buckwheat
|
15%
|
0%
|
N/A
|
0%
|
|
Employee Retention
|
5%
|
100%
|
N/A
|
5%
|
|
Total
|
100%
|
70%
|
||
|
Executive
|
Target STI
(% base
salary) 1
|
Weighted
Outcome
(% target)
|
Weighted
Outcome
(%
maximum)
|
Payout
($)
|
|
James Calaway2
|
60%
|
61%
|
31%
|
45,938
|
|
Bernard Rowe2
|
80%
|
64%
|
32%
|
100,362
|
|
April Hashimoto3
|
50%
|
64%
|
32%
|
4,069
|
|
Ken Coon4
|
20%
|
71%
|
36%
|
19,070
|
|
Yoshio Nagai4
|
20%
|
70%
|
35%
|
19,910
|
|
Chad Yeftich
|
40%
|
70%
|
35%
|
40,660
|
|
Matt Weaver
|
50%
|
80%
|
40%
|
66,706
|
| (1) |
Each executive KMP annual target STI shown in the table was prorated for the six-month performance period (1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025). The STI awards for executive KMP were split
between Company performance (75%) and individual performance (25%) and awarded in cash.
|
| (2) |
The Board made downward adjustments to the individual performance ratings for the Managing Director and Executive Chairman, reflecting delays in the strategic partnering process.
|
| (3) |
April Hashimoto provides services pursuant to a consulting agreement and therefore her STI payout was based on the services invoiced from her designation as an executive KMP on 4 December
2025 to 31 December 2025.
|
| (4) |
For Ken Coon and Yoshio Nagai, the STI annual targets were reduced from 40% to 20% to reflect their 50% work schedule.
|
| 3.4.3 |
LTI PRs vesting
|
| 3.4.4 |
Statutory remuneration
|
|
Name
(Position)
|
Year
|
Base Salary
|
Superannuation
|
Health & Life
Benefits
|
Non-
Monetary
Benefits3 |
STI
|
Long Service
Leave
|
Share-based
Payment
Options &
Rights1
|
Total Statutory
Remuneration
|
% of
performance-
based rem.
|
|
Non-
Executive Director
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Alan Davies
|
TY2025
|
32,500
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
11,882
|
44,382
|
27%
|
|
|
FY2025
|
65,000
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
15,000
|
80,000
|
19%
|
|
Stephen Gardiner
|
TY2025
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
|
FY2025
|
52,600
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
46,681
|
99,281
|
47%
|
|
Rose McKinney-James
|
TY2025
|
32,500
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
11,882
|
44,382
|
27%
|
|
|
FY2025
|
65,000
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
15,000
|
80,000
|
19%
|
|
Margaret R Walker
|
TY2025
|
32,500
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
11,882
|
44,382
|
27%
|
|
|
FY2025
|
65,000
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
15,000
|
80,000
|
19%
|
|
Timothy Woodall
|
TY2025
|
29,018
|
3,482
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
6,747
|
39,247
|
17%
|
|
|
FY2025
|
12,400
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
972
|
13,372
|
7%
|
|
Executive Director
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
James D Calaway
|
TY2025
|
199,998
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
45,938
|
-
|
419,762
|
665,698
|
70%
|
|
|
FY2025
|
462,000
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
82,180
|
-
|
340,591
|
885,271
|
48%
|
|
Bernard Rowe
|
TY2025
|
194,285
|
9,827
|
2,675
|
-
|
100,362
|
3,207
|
874,757
|
1,185,113
|
82%
|
|
|
FY2025
|
421,009
|
19,454
|
3,742
|
-
|
144,546
|
7,255
|
844,085
|
1,440,091
|
69%
|
|
Executives
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ian Bucknell 2
|
TY2025
|
156,202
|
8,712
|
3,111
|
-
|
-
|
(31,338)
|
(382,047)
|
(245,360)
|
156%
|
|
|
FY2025
|
298,209
|
19,454
|
4,081
|
-
|
66,438
|
4,962
|
571,535
|
964,679
|
66%
|
|
April Hashimoto 3
|
TY2025
|
12,710
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
4,069
|
-
|
-
|
16,779
|
24%
|
|
Ken Coon 4, 5
|
TY2025
|
67,000
|
-
|
549
|
-
|
19,070
|
-
|
59,423
|
146,042
|
54%
|
|
|
FY2025
|
200,833
|
-
|
1,033
|
3,950
|
29,325
|
-
|
309,602
|
544,243
|
62%
|
|
Yoshio Nagai 4
|
TY2025
|
70,998
|
3,990
|
2,058
|
-
|
19,910
|
-
|
70,715
|
167,617
|
54%
|
|
|
FY2025
|
212,298
|
11,490
|
4,116
|
-
|
30,905
|
-
|
312,068
|
570,877
|
60%
|
|
Chad Yeftich
|
TY2025
|
160,599
|
3,042
|
7,854
|
-
|
40,660
|
-
|
94,263
|
369,593
|
37%
|
|
|
FY2025
|
291,067
|
8,070
|
15,869
|
-
|
52,908
|
-
|
398,909
|
766,823
|
59%
|
|
Matt Weaver
|
TY2025
|
175,465
|
8,325
|
6,794
|
-
|
66,706
|
-
|
168,631
|
426,102
|
55%
|
|
|
FY2025
|
331,683
|
16,584
|
14,145
|
-
|
72,528
|
-
|
669,894
|
1,104,834
|
67%
|
|
Total
|
TY2025
|
1,163,776
|
37,378
|
23,221
|
-
|
296,715
|
(28,131)
|
1,351,199
|
2,844,158
|
|
|
|
FY2025
|
2,477,099
|
75,052
|
42,985
|
3,950
|
478,830
|
12,217
|
3,539,336
|
6,624,304
|
|
| (1) |
Share based payment expense for the 2025 Transition Period (six months ended December 31, 2025).
|
| (2) |
Ian Bucknell resigned as Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary effective 4 December 2025. Amounts in brackets are the result of the reversal of accrued long service leave, and
reversal of share-based expense relating to forfeited performance rights that were reversed upon Ian Bucknell’s resignation.
|
| (3) |
April Hashimoto was appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer on 6 November 2025 pursuant to a consulting contract by which she is paid based on an hourly rate and participates in STIP. The
amount shown as base pay reflects the amount invoiced under the consulting contract for the period that April Hashimoto was an executive KMP (4 December 2025 to 31 December 2025).
|
| (4) |
Ken Coon and Yoshio Nagai transitioned from full-time to part-time employment, effective 1 January 2025.
|
| (5) |
Non-monetary benefits relate to leased accommodation provided to Executive in Reno.
|
| 3.4.5 |
KMP shareholdings
|
|
Name
|
Ordinary shares
|
Performance rights
|
Options
|
||||||||
|
Balance at
30/06/25
|
Acquired
|
Disposed
|
Other
|
Balance at
31/12/25 |
Balance at
30/06/25
|
Net change
|
Balance at
31/12/25
|
Balance
at
30/06/25
|
Net
change
|
Balance
at
31/12/25
|
|
|
Non-Executive Directors
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Alan Davies
|
5,026,259
|
887,890
|
-
|
-
|
5,914,149
|
132,190
|
55,893
|
188,083
|
326,323
|
(326,323)
|
-
|
|
Stephen Gardiner
|
323,663
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
323,663
|
263,354
|
(263,354)
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Rose McKinney-James
|
670,070
|
132,190
|
-
|
-
|
802,260
|
132,190
|
55,893
|
188,083
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Margaret R Walker
|
750,070
|
405,310
|
-
|
-
|
1,155,380
|
132,190
|
55,893
|
188,083
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Timothy Woodall
|
75,000
|
300,000
|
-
|
-
|
375,000
|
200,000
|
188,083
|
388,083
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Executive Directors
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
James D Calaway
|
58,995,110
|
4,600,759
|
-
|
-
|
63,595,869
|
5,939,542
|
1,267,279
|
7,206,821
|
326,323
|
(326,323)
|
-
|
|
Bernard Rowe
|
69,609,147
|
9,197,048
|
-
|
-
|
78,806,195
|
11,906,857
|
4,291,648
|
16,198,505
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Executives
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ian Bucknell 1
|
6,300,766
|
3,144,310
|
(500,000)
|
-
|
8,945,076
|
7,703,997
|
(7,703,997)
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
April Hashimoto 2
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Ken Coon
|
2,888,426
|
1,694,181
|
(770,338)
|
-
|
3,812,269
|
3,572,885
|
561,363
|
4,134,248
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Yoshio Nagai
|
4,398,099
|
1,449,162
|
-
|
-
|
5,847,261
|
3,942,872
|
1,038,097
|
4,980,969
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Matt Weaver
|
7,314,594
|
3,682,025
|
(1,595,085)
|
-
|
9,401,534
|
8,883,109
|
2,392,201
|
11,275,310
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Chad Yeftich
|
2,761,885
|
1,613,788
|
(792,967)
|
-
|
3,582,706
|
4,634,991
|
1,842,103
|
6,477,094
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Total
|
159,113,089
|
27,106,663
|
(3,658,390)
|
-
|
182,561,362
|
47,444,177
|
3,781,102
|
51,225,279
|
652,646
|
(652,646)
|
-
|
| (1) |
Ian Bucknell resigned as Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary effective 4 December 2025.
|
| (2) |
April Hashimoto was appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer pursuant to a consulting contract effective 6 November 2025 and became an executive KMP on 4 December 2025.
|
|
Name
|
Grant Date
|
Vesting
Date
|
Expiry Date
|
Fair value
at grant
|
Exercise
Price
|
Balance at
30/06/25
|
Options
Granted
|
Options
Exercised
|
Options
Lapsed
|
Balance at
31/12/25
|
Financial
year to vest
|
|
James D. Calaway
|
16/11/2020
|
16/11/2021
|
16/11/2025
|
0.138
|
0.185
|
326,323
|
-
|
-
|
(326,323)
|
-
|
2022
|
|
Sub Total
|
326,323
|
-
|
-
|
(326,323)
|
-
|
||||||
|
Alan Davies
|
16/11/2020
|
16/11/2021
|
16/11/2025
|
0.138
|
0.185
|
326,323
|
-
|
-
|
(326,323)
|
-
|
2022
|
|
Sub Total
|
326,323
|
-
|
-
|
(326,323)
|
-
|
||||||
|
Total
|
652,646
|
-
|
-
|
(652,646)
|
-
|
|
Name
|
Grant Date
(mm/dd/yyyy)
|
Vesting Date
(mm/dd/yyyy)
|
Fair value
at grant
|
Rights
Granted
|
Rights
Vested
|
Rights
Lapsed
|
%
vested
|
|
Plan
|
|||||||
|
James D. Calaway
|
|||||||
|
2022 LTI - time based
|
11/4/2022
|
7/1/2025
|
0.570
|
-
|
(272,878)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
2022 LTI - performance based
|
11/4/2022
|
7/1/2025
|
0.554
|
-
|
(73,677)
|
(335,640)
|
18%
|
|
2024 STI - time based
|
11/1/2024
|
7/1/2025
|
0.280
|
-
|
(2,272,571)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
In lieu of director fees
|
11/1/2024
|
11/1/2025
|
0.280
|
-
|
(185,066)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
In lieu of director fees
|
11/5/2025
|
11/2/2026
|
0.185
|
263,316
|
-
|
-
|
0%
|
|
2025 LTI – time based
|
11/6/2025
|
1/1/2029
|
0.185
|
1,101,410
|
-
|
-
|
0%
|
|
2025 LTI - performance based
|
11/6/2025
|
1/1/2029
|
0.185
|
1,652,115
|
-
|
-
|
0%
|
|
2025 STI – ROD bonus time based 1
|
11/6/2025
|
11/7/2025
|
0.185
|
1,796,567
|
(1,796,567)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
2025 STI - time based
|
11/6/2025
|
7/1/2026
|
0.185
|
1,390,270
|
-
|
-
|
0%
|
|
Sub Total
|
|
|
|
6,203,678
|
(4,600,759)
|
(335,640)
|
|
|
Alan Davies
|
|||||||
|
In lieu of director fees
|
11/1/2024
|
11/1/2025
|
0.280
|
-
|
(132,190)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
In lieu of director fees
|
11/5/2025
|
11/2/2026
|
0.185
|
188,083
|
-
|
-
|
0%
|
|
Sub Total
|
|
|
|
188,083
|
(132,190)
|
-
|
|
|
Stephen Gardiner 2
|
|||||||
|
Granted on employment
|
8/25/2022
|
8/25/2025
|
0.660
|
-
|
(182,916)
|
(13,617)
|
93%
|
|
In lieu of director fees
|
11/1/2024
|
11/1/2025
|
0.280
|
-
|
(66,821)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
Sub Total
|
|
|
|
-
|
(249,737)
|
(13,617)
|
|
|
Rose McKinney-James
|
|||||||
|
In lieu of director fees
|
11/1/2024
|
11/1/2025
|
0.280
|
-
|
(132,190)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
In lieu of director fees
|
11/5/2025
|
11/2/2026
|
0.185
|
188,083
|
-
|
-
|
0%
|
|
Sub Total
|
|
|
|
188,083
|
(132,190)
|
-
|
|
|
Margaret R Walker
|
|||||||
|
In lieu of director fees
|
11/1/2024
|
11/1/2025
|
0.280
|
-
|
(132,190)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
In lieu of director fees
|
11/5/2025
|
11/2/2026
|
0.185
|
188,083
|
-
|
-
|
0%
|
|
Sub Total
|
|
|
|
188,083
|
(132,190)
|
-
|
|
|
Timothy Woodall
|
|||||||
|
In lieu of director fees
|
11/5/2025
|
11/2/2026
|
0.185
|
188,083
|
-
|
-
|
0%
|
|
Sub Total
|
|
|
|
188,083
|
-
|
-
|
|
|
Ian Bucknell 3
|
|||||||
|
2022 LTI - time based
|
7/1/2022
|
7/1/2025
|
0.425
|
-
|
(292,581)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
2022 LTI - performance based
|
7/1/2022
|
7/1/2025
|
0.491
|
-
|
(78,997)
|
(359,874)
|
18%
|
|
2023 LTI - time based
|
7/1/2023
|
7/1/2026
|
0.340
|
-
|
-
|
(419,206)
|
0%
|
|
2023 LTI - performance based
|
7/1/2023
|
7/1/2026
|
0.340
|
-
|
-
|
(628,809)
|
0%
|
|
2024 STI - time based
|
7/1/2024
|
7/1/2025
|
0.149
|
-
|
(1,717,742)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
2024 LTI – time based
|
7/1/2024
|
7/1/2027
|
0.149
|
-
|
-
|
(989,382)
|
0%
|
|
2024 LTI - performance based
|
7/1/2024
|
7/1/2027
|
0.149
|
-
|
-
|
(1,484,073)
|
0%
|
|
Supplemental 2024 LTI
|
3/1/2025
|
2/28/2029
|
0.145
|
-
|
-
|
(866,666)
|
0%
|
|
Supplemental 2024 LTI
|
3/1/2025
|
2/28/2029
|
0.145
|
-
|
-
|
(866,667)
|
0%
|
|
2025 LTI – time based
|
8/28/2025
|
1/1/2029
|
0.115
|
1,770,687
|
-
|
(1,770,687)
|
0%
|
|
2025 LTI - performance based
|
8/28/2025
|
1/1/2029
|
0.115
|
2,656,031
|
-
|
(2,656,031)
|
0%
|
|
2025 STI - time based
|
8/28/2025
|
9/1/2025
|
0.115
|
1,054,990
|
(1,054,990)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
Sub Total
|
|
|
|
5,481,708
|
(3,144,310)
|
(10,041,395)
|
|
|
Ken Coon
|
|||||||
|
2022 LTI - time based
|
7/1/2022
|
7/1/2025
|
0.000
|
-
|
(151,599)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
2022 LTI - performance based
|
7/1/2022
|
7/1/2025
|
0.491
|
-
|
(40,932)
|
(186,466)
|
18%
|
|
2024 STI - time based
|
7/1/2024
|
7/1/2025
|
0.149
|
-
|
(1,027,493)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
2025 LTI – time based
|
8/28/2025
|
1/1/2029
|
0.115
|
787,141
|
-
|
-
|
0%
|
|
2025 LTI - performance based
|
8/28/2025
|
1/1/2029
|
0.115
|
1,180,712
|
-
|
-
|
0%
|
|
2025 STI - time based
|
8/28/2025
|
9/1/2025
|
0.115
|
474,157
|
(474,157)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
Sub Total
|
|
|
|
2,442,010
|
(1,694,181)
|
(186,466)
|
|
|
Yoshio Nagai
|
|||||||
|
2022 LTI - time based
|
7/1/2022
|
7/1/2025
|
0.425
|
-
|
(160,695)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
2022 LTI - performance based
|
7/1/2022
|
7/1/2025
|
0.491
|
-
|
(43,388)
|
(197,654)
|
18%
|
|
2024 STI - time based
|
7/1/2024
|
7/1/2025
|
0.149
|
-
|
(1,245,079)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
2025 LTI – time based
|
8/28/2025
|
1/1/2029
|
0.115
|
834,135
|
-
|
-
|
0%
|
|
2025 LTI - performance based
|
8/28/2025
|
1/1/2029
|
0.115
|
1,251,202
|
-
|
-
|
0%
|
|
2025 STI - time based
|
8/28/2025
|
7/1/2026
|
0.115
|
599,576
|
-
|
-
|
0%
|
|
Sub Total
|
|
|
|
2,684,913
|
(1,449,162)
|
(197,654)
|
|
|
Bernard Rowe
|
|||||||
|
2022 LTI - time based
|
11/4/2022
|
7/1/2025
|
0.570
|
-
|
(560,084)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
2022 LTI - performance based
|
11/4/2022
|
7/1/2025
|
0.554
|
-
|
(151,223)
|
(688,902)
|
18%
|
|
2024 STI - time based
|
7/1/2024
|
7/1/2025
|
0.280
|
-
|
(3,806,452)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
2025 LTI – time based
|
11/6/2025
|
1/1/2029
|
0.185
|
3,377,320
|
-
|
0%
|
|
|
2025 LTI - performance based
|
11/6/2025
|
1/1/2029
|
0.185
|
5,065,979
|
-
|
-
|
0%
|
|
2025 STI – ROD bonus time based 1
|
11/6/2025
|
11/7/2025
|
0.185
|
4,379,289
|
(4,379,289)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
2025 STI - time based
|
11/6/2025
|
7/1/2026
|
0.185
|
1,055,010
|
0%
|
||
|
Sub Total
|
|
|
|
13,877,598
|
(8,897,048)
|
(688,902)
|
|
|
Chad Yeftich
|
|||||||
|
2022 LTI - time based
|
7/1/2022
|
7/1/2025
|
0.615
|
-
|
(204,658)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
2022 LTI - performance based
|
7/1/2022
|
7/1/2025
|
0.709
|
-
|
(55,258)
|
(251,729)
|
18%
|
|
2024 STI - time based
|
7/1/2024
|
7/1/2025
|
0.149
|
-
|
(1,353,872)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
2025 LTI – time based
|
8/28/2025
|
1/1/2029
|
0.115
|
1,072,039
|
-
|
-
|
0%
|
|
2025 LTI - performance based
|
8/28/2025
|
1/1/2029
|
0.115
|
1,608,059
|
-
|
-
|
0%
|
|
2025 STI - time based
|
8/28/2025
|
7/1/2026
|
0.115
|
1,027,522
|
-
|
-
|
0%
|
|
Sub Total
|
|
|
|
3,707,620
|
(1,613,788)
|
(251,729)
|
|
|
Matt Weaver
|
|||||||
|
2022 LTI - time based
|
7/1/2022
|
7/1/2025
|
0.425
|
-
|
(323,663)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
2022 LTI - performance based
|
7/1/2022
|
7/1/2025
|
0.491
|
-
|
(87,389)
|
(398,106)
|
18%
|
|
2024 STI - time based
|
7/1/2024
|
7/1/2025
|
0.149
|
-
|
(1,994,544)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
2025 LTI – time based
|
8/28/2025
|
1/1/2029
|
0.115
|
2,078,361
|
-
|
-
|
0%
|
|
2025 LTI - performance based
|
8/28/2025
|
1/1/2029
|
0.115
|
3,117,542
|
-
|
-
|
0%
|
|
2025 STI - time based
|
8/28/2025
|
9/1/2025
|
0.115
|
1,198,869
|
(1,198,869)
|
-
|
100%
|
|
Sub Total
|
|
|
|
6,394,772
|
(3,604,465)
|
(398,106)
|
|
|
Total
|
|
|
|
41,544,631
|
(25,650,020)
|
(12,113,509)
|
|
| (1) |
ROD bonuses are a one-off time-based grant issued upon achievement of a positive Record of Decision in FY2025, with a one-day vesting period, approved at the 31 October 2025 Annual General
Meeting.
|
| (2) |
Stephen Gardiner retired from the Board effective 5 May 2025.
|
| (3) |
Ian Bucknell resigned as Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary effective 4 December 2025. No pro-rata incentives were paid and
all incentives lapsed.
|
| 3.5 |
Key terms of executive KMP employment contracts
|
| 3.5.1 |
Notice and termination payments
|
|
Position
|
||||||
|
Executive
chair
|
12 months
|
1 month
|
1 month
|
Nil
|
Pro-rata
for time
served as
executive
|
Lapses
|
|
Managing
Director
|
Open term agreement
|
6 months
|
6 months
|
12 months
|
Pro-rata for
good leavers
|
Lapses
|
|
Executive
KMP1
|
Open term agreement
|
6 Months
|
3 Months
|
12 months
|
Pro-rata for
good leavers
|
Lapses
|
|
Interim
CFO1
|
Fixed term agreement
|
90 Days
|
90 Days
|
Nil
|
Not applicable
|
Not applicable
|
| 3.5.2 |
Executive Directors’ employment agreements
|
|
Feature
|
||
|
Term
|
Expected to continue until a Final Investment Decision (FID) has been accomplished. The FID is expected to be achieved in FY2026.
|
|
|
Base Salary
|
US$250,000 per annum, effective 4 January 2025. This is in addition to the existing non-executive chair remuneration of US$185,000.
Base salary does not include pension and non-cash benefits.
|
|
|
STI
|
The executive chair is eligible for a target bonus that is 60% of base salary. Maximum STI is 200% of target (120% of base salary).
Further details are discussed in section 4.3.2.
|
|
Feature
|
||
|
Equity Grants
|
The executive chair is eligible for an equity grant at 60% of base salary in the form of PRs.
60% of the PRs will be performance based. 40% of the PRs will be time based. As the executive chair’s contract is defined in U.S. dollars, the number of PRs awarded is
calculated using a 10-day VWAP up to and including the last day of the performance period and the closing exchange rate as at the last day of the performance period.
Performance based awards may range from 0 to 200% of grant based upon achievement of pre-established targets. Maximum performance-based PRs is 72% of base salary. Time
based PRs is 24% of base salary.
Further details are discussed in section 4.3.3.
|
|
|
Termination
|
Either party may terminate the contract with one month’s notice. The Company may also terminate the contract without notice in circumstances such as material breach or
serious misconduct.
|
|
Feature
|
||
|
Term
|
Open term agreement
|
|
|
Base Salary
|
A$585,000 per annum.
Base salary does not include superannuation and non-cash benefits.
|
|
|
STI
|
The MD is eligible for a target bonus that is 80% of base salary. Maximum STI is 200% of target (160% of base salary).
Further details are discussed in section 4.3.2.
|
|
|
Equity Grants
|
The MD is eligible for an equity grant at 120% of base salary in the form of PRs.
60% of the PRs will be performance based. 40% of the PRs will be time based.
Performance based awards may range from 0 to 200% of grant based upon achievement of pre-established targets. Maximum performance-based PRs is 144% of base salary. Time
based PRs is 48% of base salary.
Further details are discussed in section 4.3.3.
|
|
|
Termination
|
By executive: 6 months’ notice
By company: 6 months’ notice
|
|
Feature
|
||
|
Executive KMP
|
Senior vice president engineering & operations
Vice president human resources
Vice president commercial sales & marketing
Vice president corporate development & external affairs
|
|
|
Term
|
Open-term agreements
|
|
|
Base Salary
|
See section 4.3.1.
Base salary does not include superannuation and non-cash benefits.
|
|
|
STI
|
For TY2025, the:
• Senior vice president engineering & operations is eligible for a target bonus that is 50% of base salary. Maximum STI is 200% of target (100% of base salary).
• Vice president human resources is eligible for a target bonus that is 40% of base salary. Maximum STI is 200% of target (80% of base salary).
• Vice president commercial sales & marketing is eligible for a target bonus that is 40% of base salary. Maximum STI is 200% of target (80% of base salary).
• Vice president commercial corporate development & external affairs is eligible for a target bonus that is 40% of base salary. Maximum STI is 200% of target of target (80% of base salary).
Further details are discussed in section 4.3.2.
|
|
|
Equity Grants
|
LTIP is comprised of two components, 60% of the PRs are performance based and 40% of the PRs are time based.
Performance-based awards may range from 0 to 200% of grant based upon achievement of pre-established targets.
LTIP targets are as follows:
• Senior vice president engineering & operations is eligible for an equity grant at 85% of base salary in the form of PRs. Maximum performance-based PRs is 102% of base salary.
Time based PRs is 34% of base salary.
• Vice president human resources is eligible for an equity grant at 40% of base salary in the form of PRs. Maximum performance-based PRs is 48% of base salary. Time based PRs is 16% of base salary.
• Vice president commercial sales & marketing is eligible for an equity grant at 40% of base salary in the form of PRs. Maximum performance-based PRs is 48% of base salary. Time based PRs is 16% of base salary.
• Vice president commercial corporate development & external affairs is eligible for an equity grant at 50% of base salary in the form of PRs. Maximum performance-based PRs is 60% of base salary. Time based PRs is
20% of base salary.
Further details are discussed in section 4.3.3.
|
|
Feature
|
||
|
Termination
|
By executive: 3 months’ notice
By company: 6 months’ notice
|
| 4. |
Non-executive Director remuneration policy
|
| 4.1 |
Remuneration Policy
|
|
Chair
|
Member
|
|||||||||||||||
|
Cash
|
Equity
|
Cash
|
Equity
|
|||||||||||||
|
Board
|
$
|
150,000
|
$
|
35,000
|
$
|
60,000
|
$
|
25,000
|
||||||||
|
Audit & Risk committee
|
$
|
5,000
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||
|
Remuneration committee
|
$
|
5,000
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||
|
Projection Execution committee
|
$
|
5,000
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||
|
Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability committee
|
$
|
5,000
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|||||||||||
| 4.2 |
NED equity
|
|
Feature
|
||
|
Purpose
|
Issued in lieu of paying remuneration in cash.
|
|
|
Participants
|
The executive chair and NEDs.
|
|
|
Instruments issued
|
Time-based Performance Rights (PRs).
|
|
|
Allocation value
|
10-day VWAP up to the AGM.
|
|
|
Value of PRs to be
granted
|
Executive chair: US$35,000 (18.9% of total non-executive chair fees).
NEDs: US$25,000 (27.8% of total NED fees).
|
|
|
Vesting Date
|
1 year from date of approval.
|
|
|
Acquisition of PRs
and shares
|
PRs are issued by the company and held by the participant subject to the satisfaction of the time requirement. The number of PRs held may be adjusted pro-rata,
consistent with ASX adjustment factors for any capital restructure.
If the PRs vest, NEDs receive newly issued shares.
|
|
|
Treatment of
dividends and voting
rights
|
PRs do not have voting rights or provide dividend payments.
|
|
|
Equity Incentive
Plan and/or
clawback
|
N/A
|
|
Feature
|
||
|
Restriction on
hedging
|
Hedging of PRs by NEDs is not permitted.
|
|
|
Treatment on
termination
|
Some or all of the grants may remain on foot.
|
| 6 months |
12 months |
|||||||||||
| ended | ended | |||||||||||
| Note |
31-Dec-2025
|
30-Jun-2025
|
||||||||||
| $'000 | $'000 | |||||||||||
|
Revenue
|
||||||||||||
|
Interest revenue calculated using the effective interest method
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
Expenses
|
||||||||||||
|
Employee benefits expense
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Impairment of assets
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Other expenses
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Finance costs
|
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||
|
Loss before income tax expense
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Income tax expense
|
5 |
|
|
|||||||||
|
Loss after income tax expense for the period attributable to the owners of ioneer Limited
|
20 |
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||
|
Other comprehensive income
|
||||||||||||
|
Items that may be reclassified subsequently to profit or loss
|
||||||||||||
|
Foreign currency translation
|
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||
|
Other comprehensive income for the period, net of tax
|
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||
|
Total comprehensive income for the period attributable to the owners of ioneer Limited
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||
| |
Cents |
|
Cents |
||||||||
|
Basic earnings per share
|
25 |
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||
|
Diluted earnings per share
|
25 |
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||
| Note |
31-Dec-2025
|
30-Jun-2025
|
||||||||||
| $'000 | $'000 | |||||||||||
|
Assets
|
||||||||||||
|
Current assets
|
||||||||||||
|
Cash and cash equivalents
|
6
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
Receivables
|
8
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
Total current assets
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
Non-current assets
|
||||||||||||
|
Receivables
|
9 |
|
|
|||||||||
|
Property, plant and equipment
|
10
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
Right-of-use assets
|
11
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
Exploration and evaluation
|
12
|
|
|
|||||||||
| Other |
13 | |||||||||||
|
Total non-current assets
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
Total assets
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
Liabilities
|
||||||||||||
|
Current liabilities
|
||||||||||||
|
Payables
|
14
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
Lease liabilities
|
15 |
|
|
|||||||||
| Provisions | 16 |
|||||||||||
|
Total current liabilities
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
Non-current liabilities
|
||||||||||||
|
Lease liabilities
|
17
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
Total non-current liabilities
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
Total liabilities
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
Net assets
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
Equity
|
18 |
|||||||||||
|
Issued capital
|
19
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
Reserves
|
20 |
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||
|
Accumulated losses
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Total equity
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
Issued
capital
|
Foreign
currency
translation
reserve
|
Equity
compensation
reserve
|
Accumulated
losses
|
Total equity
|
||||||||||||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Balance at 1 July 2024
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
Loss after income tax expense for the period
|
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||||||
|
Foreign currency exchange differences
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||||||
|
Total comprehensive income for the period
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||||||
| Share issue from capital raise |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Fair value of performance rights vested
|
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
|
Share issue costs from capital raise
|
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||
|
Share-based payments expensed/capitalised
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
Balance at 30 June 2025
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
Issued
capital
|
Foreign
currency
translation
reserve
|
Equity
compensation
reserve
|
Accumulated
losses
|
Total equity
|
||||||||||||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Balance at 1 July 2025
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
Loss after income tax expense for the period
|
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||||||
|
Foreign currency translation differences
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
Total comprehensive income for the period
|
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||||||
|
Share issued from capital raise
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Share issue costs from capital raise
|
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||
|
Fair value of performance rights vested
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
Share-based payments expensed/capitalised
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
Balance at 31 December 2025
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
|||||||||||||
| 6 months | 12 months | |||||||||||
| ended | ended | |||||||||||
| Note |
31-Dec-2025
|
30-Jun-2025
|
||||||||||
| $'000 | $'000 | |||||||||||
|
Cash flows from operating activities
|
||||||||||||
|
Payments to suppliers and employees
|
$
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||
|
Net cash used in operating activities
|
7 |
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||
|
Cash flows from investing activities
|
||||||||||||
|
Payments for plant and equipment
|
10 |
(
|
)
|
|
||||||||
|
Expenditure on exploration and evaluation
|
12 |
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||
|
Interest received
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
Net cash used in investing activities
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Cash flows from financing activities
|
||||||||||||
|
Proceeds from issue of shares
|
18 |
|||||||||||
|
Repayment of borrowings
|
( |
) | ||||||||||
|
Transaction costs related to issues of equity securities
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Repayment of lease liabilities
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Payment for establishment of loan
|
( |
) | ||||||||||
|
Net cash from financing activities
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the period
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
Effects of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents
|
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||
|
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the period
|
6 |
|
|
|||||||||
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
| Note 1. |
Basis of preparation and Material accounting policies
|
| 1.1 |
Corporate information
|
| 1.2 |
Basis of preparation
|
|
1.3
|
Change in fiscal year
|
| 1.4 |
New or amended Accounting Standards and Interpretations
|
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
| 1.5 |
Basis of consolidation
|
| ● |
Power over the investee (i.e. existing rights that give it the current ability to direct the relevant activities of the investee)
|
| ● |
Exposure, or rights, to variable returns from its involvement with the investee
|
| ● |
The ability to use its power over the investee to affect its returns
|
| ● |
The contractual arrangement(s) with the other vote holders of the investee
|
| ● |
Rights arising from other contractual arrangements
|
| ● |
The Group's voting rights and potential voting rights
|
| 1.6 |
Current versus non-current classification
|
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
| 1.7 |
Critical accounting estimates and judgements
|
| 1.8 |
Foreign Currency Transactions and Balances
|
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
| 1.9 | Going Concern |
|
North America
|
Represents activity in the US primarily in relation to Rhyolite Ridge and the Reno office.
|
|
Australia
|
Represents head office expenditure, including ASX listing costs, employee benefits, exchange gains and losses and corporate assets (predominantly cash).
|
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
|
North
America
|
North
America
|
Australia
|
Australia
|
Total
|
Total
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
6 months
ended
|
12 months
ended
|
6 months
ended
|
12 months
ended
|
6 months
ended
|
12 months
ended
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
Exploration and evaluation expenditure - non-core
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Other expenses
|
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||
|
Reportable segment profit/loss
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||||||
|
Employee benefits and other expenses
|
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||
|
Net financing (expense)/income
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Loss before income tax
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||||||
|
Segment assets
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Exploration assets
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Other assets
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Total assets
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Segment liabilities
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Payables
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||||||
|
Provisions
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||||||
|
Total current liabilities
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||||||
|
Payables
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||||||
|
Total non-current liabilities
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||||||
|
Net assets
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6 months ended
31-Dec-25
|
12 months ended
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
| Impairment |
||||||||
|
Exploration expenditure written off
|
|
(
|
)
|
|||||
|
6 months ended
31-Dec-25
|
12 months ended
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
| Other expenses |
||||||||
|
General and administration expenses
|
|
|
||||||
|
Consulting and professional costs
|
|
|
||||||
|
Depreciation and amortisation
|
|
|
||||||
| Total other expenses |
|
|
||||||
|
6 months ended
31-Dec-25
|
12 months ended
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
|
Interest income from external parties
|
|
|
||||||
|
Net foreign exchange gain
|
|
|
||||||
|
Finance income
|
|
|
||||||
| Bank charges |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
| Lease interest |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
| Finance costs |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
| Net finance income |
||||||||
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
|
6 months ended
31-Dec-25
|
12 months ended
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
|
Numerical reconciliation of income tax expense and tax at the statutory rate
|
||||||||
|
Loss before income tax expense
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
|
Tax at the statutory tax rate of
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
|
Tax effect amounts which are not deductible/(taxable) in calculating taxable income:
|
||||||||
|
Differences in tax rates
|
|
|
||||||
|
Non-deductible expenses
|
|
|
||||||
|
Foreign exchange and other translation adjustments
|
|
(
|
)
|
|||||
|
Additional tax-deductible expenditure
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
|
Unrecognised tax losses relating to current period
|
|
|
||||||
|
Income tax expense
|
|
|
||||||
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
|
Deferred tax relates to the following:
|
||||||||
|
Foreign exchange gain/loss
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
|
Losses available for offsetting against future taxable income
|
|
|
||||||
|
Net deferred tax asset
|
|
|
||||||
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
|
Total tax losses
|
|
|
||||||
|
Tax losses utilised
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Jurisdiction | ||||||||||||||||
|
Revenue losses
|
Australia
$'000
|
USA
$'000
|
Canada
$'000
|
Total
$'000
|
||||||||||||
|
Balance at 1 July 2025
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Movement during the period
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||
|
Balance at 31 December 2025
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
|
Jurisdiction
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Capital losses
|
Australia
$'000
|
USA
$'000
|
Canada
$'000
|
Total
$'000
|
||||||||||||
|
Balance at 1 July 2025
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Movement during the period
|
(
|
)
|
|
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||||
|
Balance at 31 December 2025
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
| Total revenue and capital losses not recognised |
||||||||||||||||
|
●
|
the Company and Controlled Entities derive future assessable income of a nature and of an amount sufficient to enable the benefit from the deductions for the losses to be
realised.
|
|
●
|
the Company and Controlled Entities continue to comply with the conditions for deductibility imposed by the law, and
|
|
●
|
no changes in tax legislation adversely affect the Company and Controlled Entities in realising the benefit from the deductions for the losses, i.e. current tax legislation
permits carried forward tax losses to be carried forward indefinitely.
|
|
●
|
the accumulated tax losses in Australia may be carried forward and offset against taxable income in the future for an indefinite period, subject to meeting Australian tax rules
around continuity of ownership or business continuity test.
|
|
●
|
the accumulated tax losses in the USA can be carried forward and used to offset future taxable income for a period of 20 years from the year in which the losses were incurred, and
losses will start to expire from the year 2027 onwards.
|
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
|
Cash at bank
|
|
|
||||||
| Cash on deposit |
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
|
6 months ended
31-Dec-25
|
12 months ended
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
|
Loss after income tax expense for the period
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
|
Adjustments for:
|
||||||||
|
Depreciation
|
|
|
||||||
|
Exploration expenditure written off
|
|
|
||||||
|
Share-based payments
|
|
|
||||||
|
Net foreign exchange differences - unrealised
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
|
Interest income
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
|
Interest expense
|
|
|
||||||
|
Interest paid
|
|
(
|
)
|
|||||
|
Change in operating assets and liabilities:
|
||||||||
|
Decrease/(increase) in receivables
|
(
|
)
|
|
|||||
|
Increase/(decrease) in provision for employee benefits
|
(
|
)
|
|
|||||
|
Increase/(decrease) in accounts payable
|
|
(
|
)
|
|||||
|
Net cash used in operating activities
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
|
Other debtors
|
|
|
||||||
|
Prepayments
|
|
|
||||||
| Total current receivables |
|
|
||||||
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
|
Other debtors
|
|
|
||||||
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25 |
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
| Leasehold improvements - at cost |
||||||||
| Less: Accumulated depreciation |
( |
) | ||||||
|
Plant and equipment - at cost
|
|
|
||||||
|
Less: Accumulated depreciation
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
Leasehold
improvements
|
Plant and
equipment
|
Total | ||||||||||
| $'000 |
$'000 |
$'000
|
||||||||||
|
Balance at 1 July 2024
|
|
|||||||||||
|
Depreciation expense
|
( |
) |
(
|
)
|
||||||||
| Balance at 30 June 2025 |
||||||||||||
| Additions |
||||||||||||
| Transfers in/(out) |
||||||||||||
| Depreciation expense |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
|
Balance at 31 December 2025
|
|
|||||||||||
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
|
Plant and equipment - right-of-use
|
|
|
||||||
|
Less: Accumulated depreciation
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
|
Plant and
equipment -
right-of-use
|
||||
|
$'000
|
||||
|
Balance at 1 July 2024
|
|
|||
|
Additions
|
|
|||
|
Depreciation expense
|
(
|
)
|
||
|
Balance at 30 June 2025
|
|
|||
|
Depreciation expense
|
(
|
)
|
||
|
Balance at 31 December 2025
|
|
|||
| ● |
such costs are expected to be recouped through successful development and exploitation of the area, or alternatively through its sale;
or
|
| ● |
exploration and/or evaluation activities in the area have not yet reached a stage which permits a reasonable assessment of the existence or otherwise of economically
recoverable reserves.
|
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
|
Exploration assets
|
|
|
||||||
|
Exploration
assets
|
||||
|
$'000
|
||||
|
Balance at 1 July 2024
|
|
|||
|
Additions - Rhyolite Rydge
|
|
|||
|
Exploration expenditure - noncore
|
|
|||
|
Exploration expenditure - written off
|
(
|
)
|
||
|
Balance at 30 June 2025
|
|
|||
|
Additions - Rhyolite Rydge
|
||||
|
Exploration expenditure - noncore
|
||||
|
Balance at 31 December 2025
|
||||
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
|
Unamortised loan fees
|
|
|
||||||
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
|
Trade payables
|
|
|
||||||
|
Accrued expenses
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
|
Lease liability
|
|
|
||||||
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
|
Provisions for employee benefits
|
|
|
||||||
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
| 31-Dec-25 |
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
|
Lease liability
|
|
|||||||
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||||||||
|
Shares
|
Shares
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||||||||
|
Ordinary shares - fully paid
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
| Details |
Shares
|
$'000
|
||||||
|
Balance as at 1 July 2024
|
|
|
||||||
|
Capital raise
|
|
|
||||||
| Share issue costs from capital raise | - | ( |
) | |||||
|
Performance rights vested 1
|
|
|
||||||
| Balance at year ended 30 June 2025 |
||||||||
| Share issue from capital raise |
||||||||
| Share issue costs from capital raise |
- | ( |
) | |||||
| Performance rights vested 1 |
||||||||
|
Balance at period ended 31 December 2025
|
|
|
||||||
|
(1)
|
|
|
●
|
The Share Option Plan; and
|
|
●
|
The Equity Incentive Plan
|
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
|
Foreign currency translation reserve
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
| Equity compensation reserve |
||||||||
| ( |
) | ( |
) | |||||
|
Equity
compensation
reserve
|
Foreign
currency
translation
reserve
|
Total | ||||||||||
| $'000 |
$'000 |
$'000
|
||||||||||
|
Balance at 1 July 2024
|
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
|
Share based payment expensed/capitalised
|
||||||||||||
| Fair value of performance rights vested |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
| Foreign currency translation differences for foreign operations |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
| Balance at 30 June 2025 |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
| Share based payment expensed/capitalised |
||||||||||||
| Fair value of performance rights vested |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
| Foreign currency translation differences for foreign operations |
||||||||||||
|
Balance at 31 December 2025
|
( |
) |
(
|
)
|
||||||||
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
|
Accumulated losses at the beginning of the financial period
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
|
Loss after income tax expense for the period
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
|
Accumulated losses at the end of the financial period
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
|
Level 1:
|
Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;
|
|
Level 2:
|
Inputs other than quoted prices included within level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly (as prices) or indirectly (derived from prices); and
|
|
Level 3:
|
Inputs for the assets or liabilities which are not based on observable market data (unobservable inputs).
|
|
(a)
|
Credit risk
|
|
(b)
|
Liquidity risk
|
|
(c)
|
Capital management risk
|
|
(d)
|
Market risk related to commodity pricing, interest rates and currency fluctuations.
|
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
|
Less than 1
year
|
1-2 years
|
2-5 years
|
More than 5
years
|
Total
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Contractual cash flows
|
Note
|
$’000
|
$’000
|
$’000
|
$’000
|
$’000
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Consolidated - 31 Dec 2025
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Payables
|
14
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Lease liabilities
|
15
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
Less than 1
year
|
1-2 years |
2-5 years |
More than 5
years
|
Total |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Contractual cash flows
|
Note |
$’000 |
$’000 |
$’000 | $’000 | $’000 | ||||||||||||||||||
|
Consolidated - 30 Jun 2025
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Payables
|
14
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Lease liabilities
|
15
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
|
Average rate for
the year 31-Dec-25
|
|
Spot rate at
31-Dec-25
|
||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
AUD/USD
|
|
|
||||||
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
Financial instruments denominated in Australian dollars
|
$’000 | $’000 | ||||||
|
Financial assets
|
||||||||
|
Cash
|
|
|
||||||
|
Trade and other receivables
|
|
|
||||||
|
Financial liabilities
|
||||||||
|
Trade and other payables
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
|
Provisions
|
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
|
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
|
Net financial instruments
|
||||||||
|
10% increase in the AUD:USD foreign exchange rate
|
10% decrease in the AUD:USD foreign exchange rate
|
10% increase in the AUD:USD foreign exchange rate
|
10% decrease in the AUD:USD foreign exchange rate
|
|||||||||||||
|
Foreign exchange rate sensitivity
|
31-Dec-25
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
||||||||||||
|
Impact to A$ balance:
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Financial assets
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Cash
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||||
|
Trade and other receivables
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||||
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||||
| Financial liabilities | ||||||||||||||||
|
Trade and other payables
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||||
|
Provision
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
(
|
)
|
||||||||||
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||||
|
|
(
|
)
|
|
(
|
)
|
|||||||||||
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
|
6 months ended
31-Dec-25
|
12 months ended
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
| $'000 | $'000 | |||||||
|
Non-executive director fees
|
|
|
||||||
|
Executive director fees
|
||||||||
|
Employee benefits expense
|
|
|
||||||
|
Share-based payments
|
|
|
||||||
|
Total employee benefits expensed
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
6 months ended
31-Dec-25
|
12 months ended
30-Jun-25
|
||||||
| |
$ |
$ |
||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
Salaries and short-term employee benefits
|
|
|
||||||
|
Post-employment benefits
|
|
|
||||||
|
Share-based payments
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
Total key management personnel compensation
|
|
|
||||||
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
|
6 months ended
31-Dec-25
|
12 months ended
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$’000
|
$’000 | |||||||
|
Earnings used in calculating earnings per share
|
||||||||
|
Loss after income tax attributable to the owners of ioneer Limited
|
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
|
Weighted average number of ordinary shares used as the denominator
|
Number
|
Number
|
||||||
|
Issued ordinary shares - opening balance
|
|
|
||||||
|
Effect of shares issued
|
|
|
||||||
|
Weighted average number of ordinary shares
|
|
|
||||||
|
Weighted average number of shares (diluted)
|
31-Dec-25 |
30-Jun-25 |
||||||
|
Weighted average number of ordinary shares for basic EPS
|
|
|
||||||
|
Effect of dilution from options and rights on issue
|
|
|
||||||
|
Weighted average number of ordinary shares adjusted for effect of dilution
|
|
|
||||||
|
31-Dec-25
Cents
|
30-Jun-25
Cents
|
|||||||
|
Basic earnings per share
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
|
Diluted earnings per share
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
|
●
|
the extent to which the vesting period has expired, and
|
|
●
|
the number of awards that, in the opinion of the directors of the Company, will ultimately vest.
|
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
|
Type
|
Key terms
|
Expiry date
|
||
|
Non-Executive Directors
|
The options were issued at an exercise price equal to VWAP for the Company’s shares over the
|
Tranche 2:
|
|
Type
|
Key terms
|
Expiry date
|
||
|
Retention on Employment
|
Agreements with recruits including vesting after
|
N/A
|
||
|
LTI grants
|
|
N/A
|
|
Type
|
Key terms
|
Expiry date
|
||
|
LTI grants
|
|
N/A
|
||
|
The Board will employ discretion in assessing Project results and determining vesting of performance units; below, at or above targets:
HSE: Top quartile E, H&S and Community performance (compared to North American Mining Projects) Construction: Construction delivery compared to schedule at FID Growth: Measured and indicated LCE resource increased levels by 10% above July 2024 levels Cost Control: Project spend compared to budget at FID Share price: INR shareholder return compared to competitors |
||||
|
Unlike producing organisations with established operations that typically aim to deliver performance conditions tied to anticipated revenues, production levels and growth objectives,
Ioneer has a single pre-production project with less certainty or control over key deliverables. Providing the Board with the discretion to assess the extent of delivery, the importance/value of the various targets delivered (or not)
allows the ability to balance shareholder expectations and KMP reward, motivation and retention.
|
||||
|
The Board will employ discretion in assessing Project results and determining the vesting of performance units; below, at or above targets (
|
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
|
●
|
The Board may at its discretion make invitations to or grant awards to eligible persons.
|
|
|
●
|
Award means an option or a performance right to acquire a Share in the capital of the Company.
|
|
|
●
|
Eligible Persons include executive directors or executive officers of the Group, employees, contractors or consultants of the Group or any other persons.
|
|
|
●
|
A participant may not sell or assign awards.
|
|
|
●
|
Within
|
|
|
●
|
At any time during the exercise period, a participant may exercise any or all of their vested options by paying the exercise price.
|
|
●
|
Full or part time employee or consultants of the Group are eligible to participate.
|
|
|
●
|
Options issued pursuant to the plan will be issued free of charge.
|
|
|
●
|
Options are time based and there are no performance conditions.
|
|
|
●
|
Options cannot be transferred and are not quoted on the ASX.
|
|
|
●
|
Options expire if not exercised
|
|
|
●
|
The exercise of the options, at grant date, shall be as the directors in their absolute discretion determine, provided the exercise price shall not be less than the weighted
average of the last sale price of the Company’s shares on the ASX at the close of business on each of the
|
|
|
●
|
The directors may limit the total number of options which may be exercised under the plan in any year.
|
|
Number of
performance
rights
|
Weighted
average
exercise
price
|
Number of
performance
rights
|
Weighted
average
exercise
price
|
|||||||||||||
|
31-Dec-25
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||||||||
|
Outstanding at the beginning of the financial period
|
|
$
|
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||||
|
Granted
|
|
$
|
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||||
|
Vested
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
||||||||
|
Lapsed
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
||||||||
|
Outstanding at the end of the financial period
|
|
$
|
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||||
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
|
Number of
options
|
Weighted
average
exercise
price
|
Number of
options
|
Weighted
average
exercise
price
|
|||||||||||||
|
31-Dec-25
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||||||||
|
Outstanding at the beginning of the financial period
|
|
$
|
|
|
$
|
|
||||||||||
|
Expired
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
(
|
)
|
$
|
|
||||||||
|
Outstanding at the end of the financial period
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
6 months ended
31-Dec-25
|
12 months ended
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
| Result for the parent entity |
$'000
|
$'000
|
||||||
|
Loss for the period
|
(
|
)
|
(
|
)
|
||||
| Total comprehensive loss for the period |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
| Financial position of the parent entity |
$'000
|
$'000
|
||||||
|
Current assets
|
|
|
||||||
| Non-current assets |
||||||||
| Total assets |
||||||||
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$'000
|
$'000
|
|||||||
|
Current liabilities
|
|
|
||||||
| Non-current liabilities |
||||||||
| Total liabilities |
||||||||
| Net assets |
||||||||
|
Contributed equity
|
|
|
||||||
| Reserves |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
| Accumulated losses |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
| Total equity |
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
| Principal place of business / |
Ownership
interest |
Ownership
interest
|
|||||
|
Name
|
Country of incorporation |
31-Dec-2025
|
30-Jun-2025 |
||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
31-Dec-25
|
30-Jun-25
|
|||||||
|
$’000
|
$’000
|
|||||||
|
Payable within one year
|
||||||||
|
Water rights
|
|
|
||||||
|
Non-cancellable lease commitments
|
|
|
||||||
|
Exploration and evaluation expenditure commitments
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
||||||
|
Payable after one year but not later than five years
|
||||||||
|
Water rights
|
|
|
||||||
|
Non-cancellable lease commitments
|
|
|
||||||
|
Exploration and evaluation expenditure commitments
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
||||||
|
Payable later than five years
|
||||||||
|
Water rights
|
|
|
||||||
|
Non-cancellable lease commitments
|
|
|
||||||
|
Exploration and evaluation expenditure commitments
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
||||||
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
| ● |
Pay Boundary Peak LLC US $
|
| ● |
Issue shares (or a mix of both shares and cash) to Boundary Peak LLC, to the equivalent of US $
|
|
|
31-Dec-25 |
30-Jun-25 | ||||||
|
|
$ |
$ |
||||||
|
Audit services - Ernst & Young
|
||||||||
|
Audit or review of the group financial statements
|
|
|||||||
|
Audit of subsidiaries
|
|
|||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
Total audit services
|
|
|||||||
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Notes to the financial statements
|
|
31 December 2025
|
|
ioneer Limited
|
|
Consolidated entity disclosure statement
|
|
31 December 2025
|
|
Entity name
|
Entity type
|
Body
corporates
Place formed
or incorporated
|
Body
corporates
% of share
capital held
|
Tax residency
Australian or
foreign
|
Tax residency
Foreign
jurisdiction
|
|||||
|
Ioneer Limited
|
Body corporate
|
Australia
|
N/A
|
Australian
|
N/A
|
|||||
|
Ioneer Canada ULC
|
Body corporate
|
Canada
|
100
|
Australian
|
CAD
|
|||||
|
Ioneer Holdings USA Inc.
|
Body corporate
|
USA
|
100
|
Foreign
|
USA
|
|||||
|
Ioneer Holdings Nevada Inc.
|
Body corporate
|
USA
|
100
|
Foreign
|
USA
|
|||||
|
Ioneer USA Corporation
|
Body corporate
|
USA
|
100
|
Foreign
|
USA
|
|||||
|
Gerlach Gold LLC
|
Body corporate
|
USA
|
100
|
Foreign
|
USA
|
|||||
|
Ioneer Rhyolite Ridge Holdings LLC
|
Body corporate
|
USA
|
100
|
Foreign
|
USA
|
|||||
|
Ioneer Rhyolite Ridge Midco LLC
|
Body corporate
|
USA
|
100
|
Foreign
|
USA
|
|||||
|
Ioneer Rhyolite Ridge LLC
|
Body corporate
|
USA
|
100
|
Foreign
|
USA
|
|||||
|
Ioneer Minerals Corporation
|
Body corporate
|
USA
|
100
|
Foreign
|
USA
|
|||||
|
Paradigm AZ LLC
|
Body corporate
|
USA
|
100
|
Foreign
|
USA
|
| ● |
the attached financial statements and notes comply with the Corporations Act 2001, the Accounting Standards, the Corporations Regulations 2001 and other mandatory
professional reporting requirements;
|
| ● |
the attached financial statements and notes comply with International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board as
described in Note 1 to the financial statements;
|
| ● |
the attached financial statements and notes give a true and fair view of the company's financial position as at 31 December 2025 and of its performance for the
financial period ended on that date;
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| ● |
there are reasonable grounds to believe that the company will be able to pay its debts as and when they become due and payable; and
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| ● |
the information disclosed in the attached consolidated entity disclosure statement is true and correct.
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|
Metric
Tonnes
|
Li
Grade
|
B
Grade
|
Equivalent
Grade
|
Equivalent
Grade
|
Equivalent
contained
tonnes
|
Equivalent
contained
tonnes
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
(Mt)
|
(ppm)
|
(ppm)
|
%
|
%
|
Li2CO3
kt
|
H2BO3
kt
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Stream 1 (>5,000 ppm B)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Measured Resource
|
64.4
|
1,752
|
12,669
|
0.9
|
7.2
|
600
|
4,664
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Indicated Resource
|
87.4
|
1,551
|
11,280
|
0.8
|
6.5
|
721
|
5,636
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Inferred Resource
|
26.9
|
1,554
|
11,101
|
0.8
|
6.4
|
222
|
1,706
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Total Stream 1
|
178.7
|
1,624
|
11,754
|
0.9
|
6.7
|
1,544
|
12,006
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Stream 2 (>$16.54/tonne net value cut-off grade, Low Clay)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Measured Resource
|
74.9
|
1,198
|
1,461
|
0.6
|
0.8
|
477
|
626
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Indicated Resource
|
164.8
|
1,121
|
1,445
|
0.6
|
0.8
|
983
|
1,362
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Inferred Resource
|
69.3
|
1,161
|
881
|
0.6
|
0.5
|
428
|
349
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Total Stream 2
|
308.9
|
1,149
|
1,323
|
0.6
|
0.8
|
1,888
|
2,336
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Stream 3 (>1,090 ppm Li, no B COG, high clay)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Measured Resource
|
19.2
|
2,201
|
1,550
|
1.2
|
0.9
|
225
|
170
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Indicated Resource
|
29.7
|
2,085
|
1,164
|
1.1
|
0.7
|
330
|
198
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Inferred Resource
|
12.1
|
1,621
|
579
|
0.9
|
0.3
|
105
|
40
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Total Stream 3
|
61.1
|
2,029
|
1,169
|
1.1
|
0.7
|
659
|
408
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Total Mineral Resource (Streams 1, 2 and 3)
|
548.3
|
1,401
|
4,702
|
0.8
|
2.7
|
4,092
|
14,750
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Ore Reserve
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Proved Reserve
|
91.6
|
1,575
|
6,460
|
0.8
|
3.7
|
768
|
3,384
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Probable Reserve
|
173.9
|
1,373
|
4,401
|
0.7
|
2.5
|
1,271
|
4,377
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Total Proved and Probable Ore Reserve
|
265.5
|
1,443
|
5,112
|
0.8
|
2.9
|
2,039
|
7,761
|
| ● |
548.6mt at 1,401ppm lithium (equivalent to 0.8% lithium carbonate) and 4,701ppm boron (equivalent to 2.7% boric acid).
|
| ● |
4.1mt of equivalent lithium carbonate and 14.8mt of equivalent boric acid.
|
| ● |
inclusion of low-boron lithium mineralisation in the Ore Reserve estimate for the first time,
|
| ● |
additional drilling completed,
|
| ● |
avoidance of Tiehm's buckwheat and Cave Springs in the mine plan, and
|
| ● |
additional ore streams to process plant.
|
|
B
|
Boron
|
|
|
Carbonate minerals
|
Calcite and dolomite
|
|
|
DFS
|
Definitive Feasibility Study
|
|
|
H2BO3
|
Boric acid
|
|
|
GSC
|
Global Geoscience Limited
|
|
|
INR
|
Ioneer Limited
|
|
|
K-feldspar
|
Potassium feldspar
|
|
|
km
|
Kilometre
|
|
|
kt
|
Kilotonne
|
|
|
K2SO4
|
Potassium sulphate
|
|
|
Li
|
Lithium
|
|
|
Li2BO3
|
Lithium carbonate
|
|
|
LCE
|
Lithium carbonate equivalent
|
|
|
mt
|
Million tonnes
|
|
|
Mt
|
Metric tonnes
|
|
|
PFS
|
Pre-Feasibility Study
|
|
|
ppm
|
parts per million
|
|
|
Searlesite
|
Sodium borosilicate mineral
|
|
|
Sepiolite
|
Magnesium silicate
|
|
|
BLM
|
Bureau of Land Management
|
|
|
FWS
|
US Fish and Wildlife Service
|
|
|
ROD
|
Record of Decision
|
|
|
FID
|
Final Investment Decision
|
|
Project
|
Country
|
Tenement ID
|
Tenement Name
|
Area (km2)
|
Interest as
at
31-Dec-25
|
Interest as
at 28-Feb-26
|
Note
|
|||||||
|
Beacon Hill
|
USA
|
NMC118666
|
NLB claims (160)
|
12.80
|
100%
|
100%
|
No change
|
|||||||
|
Beacon Hill
|
USA
|
NV106310781
|
NLB claims (41)
|
3.30
|
100%
|
100%
|
No change
|
|||||||
|
Rhyolite Ridge
|
USA
|
NMC1117360
|
SLB claims (199)
|
15.90
|
100%
|
100%
|
No change
|
|||||||
|
Rhyolite Ridge
|
USA
|
NV105809159
|
SLB claims (18)
|
1.40
|
100%
|
100%
|
No change
|
|||||||
|
Rhyolite Ridge
|
USA
|
NMC1171536
|
SLM claims (122)
|
9.60
|
100%
|
100%
|
No change
|
|||||||
|
Rhyolite Ridge
|
USA
|
NMC1179516
|
RR claims (65)
|
4.80
|
100%
|
100%
|
No change
|
|||||||
|
Rhyolite Ridge
|
USA
|
NV105810398
|
RR claims (14)
|
1.10
|
100%
|
100%
|
No change
|
|||||||
|
Beacon Hill
|
USA
|
NMC1129523
|
BH claims (81)
|
6.00
|
100%
|
100%
|
No change
|
|||||||
|
Rhyolite Ridge
|
USA
|
NV105272779
|
RMS mill sites (23)
|
0.50
|
100%
|
100%
|
No change
|
|||||||
|
Rhyolite Ridge
|
USA
|
NV106354216
|
RMS mill sites (325)
|
6.50
|
100%
|
100%
|
No change
|
|||||||
|
Rhyolite Ridge
|
USA
|
NMC1147932
|
SLP claims (120)
|
9.60
|
100%
|
100%
|
No change
|
|||||||
|
Rhyolite Ridge
|
USA
|
NV105272053
|
PR claims (11)
|
0.90
|
100%
|
100%
|
No change
|
|||||||
|
Sarcobatus Basin
|
USA
|
NV106735396
|
COB claims (231)
|
18.50
|
100%
|
100%
|
No change
|
|
Holders
|
Total Units
|
%
|
||||||||||
|
1 to 1,000
|
699
|
435,089
|
0.01
|
%
|
||||||||
|
1,001 to 5,000
|
3,279
|
9,615,845
|
0.32
|
%
|
||||||||
|
5,001 to 10,000
|
1,958
|
15,627,105
|
0.52
|
%
|
||||||||
|
10,001 to 100,000
|
5,456
|
210,406,116
|
6.94
|
%
|
||||||||
|
100,001 and over
|
1,875
|
2,797,029,490
|
92.22
|
%
|
||||||||
|
13,267
|
3,033,113,645
|
|||||||||||
|
Ordinary shares
|
||||||||
|
% of total
|
||||||||
|
shares
|
||||||||
|
Number held
|
issued
|
|||||||
|
Citicorp Nominees Pty Ltd
|
699,499,580
|
22.75
|
||||||
|
HSBC Custody Nominees (Australia) Limited
|
436,280,541
|
14.19
|
||||||
|
J P Morgan Nominees Australia Pty Limited
|
163,102,292
|
5.30
|
||||||
|
Merrill Lynch (Australia) Nominees Pty Ltd
|
85,788,098
|
2.79
|
||||||
|
BNP Paribas Nominees Pty Ltd (IB AU Noms Retail Client)
|
61,391,603
|
2.00
|
||||||
|
Lithium Investors America LLC
|
56,268,106
|
1.83
|
||||||
|
HSBC Custody Nominees (Australia) Limited – A/C 2
|
45,977,982
|
1.50
|
||||||
|
Mopti Pty Ltd (The Rowe Family A/C)
|
36,690,902
|
1.19
|
||||||
|
Versatile Money Pty Ltd (Versatile Money A/C)
|
33,925,169
|
1.10
|
||||||
|
UBS Nominees Pty Ltd
|
32,964,987
|
1.07
|
||||||
|
FNL Investments Pty Ltd
|
28,950,000
|
0.94
|
||||||
|
Warbont Nominees Pty Ltd (Unpaid Entrepot A/C)
|
27,250,524
|
0.89
|
||||||
|
FNL Investments Pty Ltd (Superannuation Plan A/C)
|
24,000,000
|
0.78
|
||||||
|
Kolley Pty Ltd (Lucas Family A/C)
|
20,998,889
|
0.68
|
||||||
|
Howarth Commercial Pty Ltd
|
20,619,999
|
0.67
|
||||||
|
BNP Paribas Nominees Pty Ltd (HUB24 Custodial Serv Ltd)
|
20,068,000
|
0.65
|
||||||
|
Quality Life Pty Ltd (The Viking Fund A/C)
|
19,524,590
|
0.64
|
||||||
|
Quality Life Pty Ltd (The Neill Family A/C)
|
18,850,000
|
0.61
|
||||||
|
BNP Paribas Nominees Pty Ltd (Clearstream)
|
18,805,370
|
0.61
|
||||||
|
Bond Street Custodians Limited (Laman - D05019 A/C)
|
15,500,000
|
0.50
|
||||||
|
1,866,456,632
|
60.69
|
|||||||
|
Minimum
parcel size
|
Holders
|
|||||||
|
Minimum $500 parcel at $0.1350 per unit
|
5,269,470
|
2,903
|
||||||
|
Ordinary shares
|
||||||||
|
% of total
|
||||||||
|
shares
|
||||||||
|
Number held
|
issued
|
|||||||
|
Centaurus
|
377,352,433
|
12.27
|
||||||
|
Bank of New York Mellon Corporation
|
215,126,010
|
7.00
|
||||||
|
James D. Calaway
|
Executive Chair
|
|
|
Bernard Rowe
|
Managing Director
|
|
|
Alan Davies
|
Non-executive Director
|
|
|
Rose McKinney-James
|
Non-executive Director
|
|
|
Margaret R. Walker
|
Non-executive Director
|
|
|
Timothy Woodall
|
Non-executive Director
|