Sandfire

To celebrate International Women’s Day, the Sandfire team in Perth had the opportunity to hear from Sally Langer, Non-Executive Director, who shared her insights on equality and empowerment, as well as her thoughts on how the approach to diversity and inclusion has changed throughout her career. Take a look at some of the highlights from Sally’s discussion below.

Sandfire expresses its deepest sympathies to the victims, their families and friends and others impacted by the recent severe flooding across Botswana, including the communities of Gaborone, Francistown and Ghanzi, close to our Motheo Operations.     The heavy rain and flooding resulted in some fatalities, displaced more than 5,000 members of the community and disrupted access to clean water, healthcare and education. To support those impacted, Sandfire will donate BWP3,000,000 to the Botswana Disaster Management Relief Fund. The Motheo team also partnered with local emergency response teams to assist with the evacuation of residents and contributed food hampers and toiletries to those in need during the flooding. 

To highlight this year’s International Women’s Day theme ‘For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.’ we want to share the unique and inspirational stories of women from around our business. Meet Unoda, Operations Leading Hand at Motheo, who says it is the women at Sandfire who inspire and motivate her. “I am inspired by several women at Sandfire who exemplify exceptional leadership skills, resilience, and have thrived in the mining industry,” Unoda said. “Their achievements motivate me to develop my own leadership abilities and create a meaningful impact in my role.” You can read more about Unoda, and her career at Sandfire below. https://lnkd.in/gXfBS2xw

Members of the Sandfire team in Perth were pleased to attend the AUSIMM International Women’s Day event, featuring guest speaker Turia Pitt. The event provided an opportunity for our team to connect and celebrate the achievements of women in mining, and to recognise the progression towards a more diverse and inclusive sector. The event featured an inspirational address given by Turia Pitt, one of Australia’s most admired and widely recognised people, who sustained burns to 65% of her body. She has continued to persevere through personal challenges to become a successful businesswoman, best-selling author and athlete. 

Miriam Pérez is an Operator at Sandfire MATSA with an inspiring career journey and a unique outlook on equality and empowerment. For International Women’s Day, Miriam shared her thoughts and experiences in this short video, produced by the team at Sandfire MATSA. Sandfire is proud of its diverse workforce, and we embrace our unique geographic footprint and the cultural differences of our people. Thank you Miriam Pérez for sharing your story, and to the team at MATSA for highlighting and celebrating the contributions of women in our business. 

Today is International Women’s Day, a global day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. As we reflect on the progress we’ve made towards improving gender equality we know there is always more we can do.   Inclusion and diversity is not driven by short-term thinking or the latest trends. Rather, we believe that an inclusive workplace that values the diversity of its people delivers better business outcomes, enables our people to achieve their full potential, and creates sustainable benefit for the communities in which we work. We will create an inclusive and diverse workplace through leadership commitment, embracing our unique geographic footprint, celebrating our cultural differences and the systemisation of our behaviours to ensure continuous improvement.

Today we released our Financial Results for the December 2024 Half Year. A robust six months has put us on track to deliver on our commitments for the full year, although we are monitoring heavy rainfall at both MATSA and Motheo. We delivered a 16% increase in Group Copper Equivalent production to 75.1kt and reduced net debt by $107.9M to $288.2M.      During the period we also increased Underlying EBITDA by 87% from $118.7M to $255.2M and received credit approval for a new, unsecured $650M Corporate Revolver Facility, which will replace our existing CRF and be used to repay existing project facilities and fundamentally de-risk our balance sheet. You can read the full report here @ https://bit.ly/434r34h

Sandfire is excited to share that CEO and Managing Director, Brendan Harris, was the winner of the #WIRA2025 Champion of Women in Resources Award! 🎊 At Sandfire, Brendan established a 40:40:20 gender diversity target for his executive team and achieved this milestone within six months. Under Brendan’s leadership, female representation in senior roles has risen to 31.9%, and 51% of employees at our head office are women. Congratulations to Brendan and all the award winners and finalists. You can learn more about the award here: https://hubs.ly/Q036zgwt0

Join us for our H1 FY25 Financial Results call on Thursday, 20 February 2025 at 10:00am (AWST) / 1:00pm (AEDT).     Sandfire’s Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Brendan Harris, and our Executive Leadership Team, will discuss our financial and operational performance for the first half of FY25.      To register for the live webcast, visit: https://lnkd.in/gZ5FhKry

Sandfire was delighted to be part of an incredible week of connections, innovations and industry-shaping insights at the 2025 Mining Indaba in Cape Town, South Africa last week. The event highlighted long-term economic growth opportunities and sustainability trends, sharing a vision for the future of African mining, sparking thought-provoking conversations and providing an opportunity for attendees to learn about new developments and technological advancements from across the mining sector. Sandfire was one of the companies participating in the Botswana stall. This important collaboration between the mining industry and the Government of Botswana reinforces a shared commitment to driving sustainable and responsible mining practices within the region for years to come.