Profile

Perilya is an Australian success story having made the transition from explorer to profitable producer. Perilya is a leading Australian base metals mining and exploration company and is an S&P/ASX 200 listed company.

assets and interests

Perilya Limited is an ASX 200 Australian base metals mining and exploration company. Perilya is investing substantially in the development of its three major projects located in the Broken Hill, Mt Isa and Flinders regions as well as exploration in the surrounding tenements.

The company is expanding its operations at the iconic Broken Hill mine through the development of an exploration decline at Potosi, re-developing the North Mine via a development decline, conducting an open pit feasibility study into the Flying Doctor deposit and conducting exploration within a 10 kilometre radius of the concentrator.

Since 2007 Perilya has successfully mined, stockpiled and is now exporting approximately 100,000 tonnes of contained zinc in the form of high grade zinc silicate (oxide) ore at the Beltana deposit located in the Flinders project in South Australia. It is currently conducting a feasibility study into a similar project at the adjacent Reliance deposit. The high grade nature of the ore obviates the need for metallurgical processing enabling direct shipment to smelters.

The Company is also targeting early development of its 203,000 tonne Mount Oxide copper project in the Mt Isa region in Queensland.

Perilya has a strong balance sheet with low debt levels and is actively seeking growth opportunities.

leadership and people

Perilya’s people reflect a company culture of mixing young professionals with generations of local knowledge and experience.

Perilya is led by a team of highly skilled business leaders focused on building capability, seizing opportunities and positioning the company for sustainable long term growth.

Perilya employs more than 680 people and 200 contractors Australia wide, and invests in training new people into the company and the industry and currently has a number of apprentices and trainees.

community and environment

Perilya continues to provide significant benefit to the communities near its operations.  We see this as both a business opportunity and a social contribution to the regions in which we operate.

This investment includes providing employment to local people, developing commercial relationships with local industries and suppliers, taxes and royalties, and supporting local community programs.

Perilya aims to balance economic and environmental values.  The company benchmarks against international Environmental Management Standard 14001.

Perilya has won the Australian Minerals and Energy Environment Foundation Excellence Award and the prestigious Golden Gecko Award for environmental performance in Western Australia.

Other awards include the 2007 Employee Share Offer Program (ESOP) of the Year awarded to Perilya by the Australian Employee Owner Association (AEOA) for the company's benchmark share aquisition program; and the 2008 Governance Professional of the Year which was won by Perilya's company secretary Darryl Edwards.

looking forward

Perilya’s strategy is to build on past achievements and the current buoyant commodities market to position the company for sustainable long term growth.

Our focus is on:

• extending the life and increasing the profit margins of our operations
• fast tracking the value creation from our development projects and exploration assets
• diversifying our revenue and product streams
• strengthening our development pipeline
• building the capabilities of our people and systems.