INDEPENDENCE GROUP NL SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2017

NATIVE TITLE In accordance with the Native Title Act 1993 , various lands are subject to native title claims and determinations. IGO operates in accordance with the law and in close collaboration with our stakeholders, some of whom are Traditional Owners. The following outlines the status of claims as they affect IGO operations. BEYOND COMPLIANCE LIVING OUR VALUES NOVA OPERATION As part of the Nova Project’s development, a land access agreement over the mining and related tenements was secured with the Traditional Owners, the Ngadju people in August 2014. This agreement contains an acknowledgment that the Ngadju are the Traditional Owners of their determination area. It also sets forth a range of benefits that IGO will provide to the Ngadju people in return for which the Ngadju have granted various consents to enable approval of the mine. Subsequent to signing this agreement, in November 2014, the Federal Court of Australia handed down a determination that native title exists over an area that includes the Nova Operation. The success of IGO’s relationship with the Ngadju can be attributed to, in large part, the efforts of the joint Ngadju and IGO consultative committee, known as the Interpretation Committee, which meets three or four times annually. TROPICANA GOLD MINE The Tropicana Gold Mine is wholly within the area of the former Wongatha Native Title Claim (WC99/001). This claim was dismissed by the Federal Court in 2007. Notwithstanding this, Tropicana continues to work constructively with the Traditional Owners. LONG OPERATION The High Court has recently confirmed that the Ngadju people have native title rights over an area comprising the Long Operation. However, while native title rights and interests survive over the Long tenements those rights and interests have no impact on, nor do they prevent any mining activities being carried out at the Long Operation. JAGUAR OPERATION At present, there are no registered native title claims over the tenure on which the Jaguar Operation is located. However, various parties have a connection with that country, including the Koara, Ngalia, Wutha, and Wongatha peoples. 70 — IGO SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2017

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