INDEPENDENCE GROUP NL SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2017

HERITAGE PROTECTION At each of our operating mines, our projects and our various exploration sites, sites of historical or heritage significance have been identified. Over time, other new sites may be identified. IGO has clear protocols around land disturbance and acts in accordance with the law. IGO seeks to engage Traditional Owners to ensure the effective and culturally sensitive management of significant sites. In FY17, no significant sites were disturbed accidentally or otherwise. In FY17, IGO did not enter into any new land access agreements. Importantly in early FY18, IGO reached agreement with the Northern Territories Central Land Council to enable exploration in the Lake Mackay project area (refer to page 45). STATUTORY COMPLIANCE IGO has a governance process for identifying statutory non- compliance as well as non- conformance with IGO policies and procedures. This process includes systematic audits to objectively verify conformance with our sustainability standards and legal requirements, as well as to provide recommendations to improve our sustainability performance. Our operations are continuing to update legal compliance registers in FY18 to improve this process. In FY17, IGO received no fines or non-monetary sanctions. In FY17, IGO received seven notices from the Western Australian Department of Mines and Petroleum Resource Safety Branch. These required various modifications to our systems to further improve workforce safety. All corrective actions associated with these improvement notices are either complete or on target for completion by the due date. In FY17, IGO received one improvement notice in respect of environmental performance at our Long Operation. In FY17, IGO’s internal processes identified a range of minor non- compliances with our policies and procedures. While these are important to the effective management of our business at an operational level (and corrective actions are pursued to completion), none were regarded as material from the perspective of IGO as a whole, nor were any material to our external stakeholders beyond those addressed above. STAKEHOLDER FEEDBACK In FY17, IGO received no material or re-occurring complaints from any of our stakeholders in respect of nuisance or harm that we were seen to have caused. The public stakeholders with which we continue to be most actively involved, and those that provide IGO with most feedback, are the Traditional Owners of the land on which we operate and our host pastoralists. IGO endeavors to be responsive to concerns raised, and we are confident that we have established positive and effective working relationships. IGO SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2017— 71