INDEPENDENCE GROUP NL ANNUAL REPORT 2017

• Leonora District High School; • Norseman District High School; and • Nulsen Primary School (Esperance). In the five years that IGO have been a part of TLG , the TLG- IGO Rural Tutoring Program has provided over 15,000 hours of free one-on-one tuition, through 350 tutors to 800 students which has resulted in: • 87% of students have significantly improved their mathematics outcome; • 72% of students have improved their attitude towards school; and • 33% of the volunteer tutors now considering teaching as a career option. Concurrently, feedback from the school principals has been overwhelmingly positive with 100% of them observing an: • Improvement in mathematics ability; • Increase in enthusiasm for school; • Increase in their students’ self-confidence; and • Increase in student attendance rates. SUSTAINABILITY In FY17, IGO experienced no material environmental incidents. Further, we successfully completed several improvement projects including the clean-up of the historic Teutonic Bore equipment ‘grave yard’ at our Jaguar operation. We also completed our comprehensive triennial reviews of mine closure planning at two of our three operations, and the associated public consultation. On a more general note, in FY17, IGO improved a broad range of business processes related to governance, occupational health and safety management, environmental management, community engagement and Traditional Owner participation. Having implemented a set of universal Safety Standards in FY16, work continues to establish a set of Environmental Standards that will see our business do more than just comply with the law; we are intent on being leaders. Our Long Operation is nearing the end of its operating life; (at least in its current configuration), with operations expected to be suspended in latter half of FY18. IGO has extensively engaged the workforce and the host community at Kambalda about this transition. IGO fully understands the impacts of such change and has taken various steps to mitigate the impacts. We are also pleased to report that IGO is in the process of completing its third Sustainability Report covering the FY17 reporting period. This report will be available on our website at www.igo.com.au at the end of October 2017. IGO ANNUAL REPORT 2017— 11