If you are on a small ASX-listed explorer, the same dozen pressures come back every year. Pick the row that matches what your inbox looks like this week. The fourth column is the artefact to open first. The fifth column is only there when you need a second pass.
| Situation | Who carries it | What you need to answer | Open first | If you need a second read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New director induction | Chair, new NED | Where is my personal liability, in plain terms? | Director Duties Matrix | Pair with Director duties on an ASX-listed mining board for Corporations Act s180-184 in plain English. |
| Pre-AGM or board strategy day | Chair, CFO | Where should we spend the risk slice of the agenda? | Director Duties Matrix | The matrix gives one coherent view of duty hotspots. Back it with the director duties pillar if the room wants narrative. |
| Post-incident review | Chair, MD | What could directors be personally exposed to, and what did insurance actually cover? | WHS officer due diligence | Add D&O, PI and environmental cover gaps before you talk to the broker. Use the Director Duties Matrix for the full duty frame. |
| Pre-capital raise | CFO | What do we show investors on risk, without overclaiming? | Risk Register Starter Kit | Pair with the ISO 31000 enterprise-risk pillar when someone asks "how was this built?" and the cover-gaps article before renewal questions land. |
| Post-audit findings | CFO, ARC Chair | How do we show controls and closure, not just a prettier heat-map? | Risk Register Starter Kit | Add the enterprise-risk pillar for the framework, and the DIY bowtie when the finding wants control-level evidence. |
| Insurance renewal | CFO, Chair | Are we carrying the gaps that hurt juniors in a claim? | D&O, PI and environmental cover gaps | Bring the Director Duties Matrix and Risk Register if the broker asks how duties and risks line up on paper. |
| New tenement acquired | MD, Exploration Manager | What approvals and spend rules apply to this ground? | Mining approvals for ASX junior miners | Read the tenement expenditure cliff next so minimum expenditure dates land on the same calendar as geology. |
| Quarterly tenement reporting | Co-Sec, MD | What is due this quarter, and what forfeits if we drift? | The tenement expenditure cliff | Read the approvals pillar when the question is which regulator letter or approval state you are in. |
| Annual expenditure statement window | CFO, MD | What happens if we miss minimum spend, and how long do fixes take? | The tenement expenditure cliff | This piece only. Forfeiture is mechanical. Deferral or reduction is its own approval path and needs lead time. |
| Drilling program kick-off | MD | What sign-offs and hazard controls do we need before spud? | DIY bowtie analysis | Pair with the approvals pillar for conditions and approvals outside the rig contractor pack. |
| Rehab liability accounting question | CFO | How do bonds, provisions and restoration cash tie together? | Environmental bonds and rehab liability | Add the Risk Register Starter Kit if you also need the risk row and control owner in the register the ARC sees. |
You are not "behind on governance." You are probably in one of a small set of weeks everyone hits. The point of this calendar is to short-circuit the "where do I even start" question. Scan the first column for what your inbox looks like. Open the link in the fourth column. Use the fifth column only when you already know you need a second pass — for example, insurance after duties, or bowtie after the register.
Everything linked here is free: eight long-form articles and two Excel kits with short explainers — the Director Duties Matrix and the Risk Register Starter Kit. They are written for people who have to sign things, not for consultants pitching frameworks.
If more than one row applies in the same month, that is also normal. Most junior boards run two or three of these situations concurrently. Pick the one with the closest deadline. Open it first. Close it. Move on.
The pressures juniors hit are not novel. They are operating cycles. Recognising the pattern is what turns "we need a governance program" into "open this, close that, move on."
You are not "behind on governance." You are probably in one of a small set of weeks everyone hits.
Find the row. Open the link. Then get back to the actual work.
If you have time for one read this week, here is the first thing to open by role. Fifteen minutes each.
Sections 180–184 are not abstract on a mining list. Open the Director Duties Matrix for the duty map, then read director duties on an ASX-listed mining board for the long-form pass before your first board or risk committee.
Fifteen minutes on those two beats most "what am I personally on the hook for?" questions.
Investors and auditors want a register with owners and controls — the Risk Register Starter Kit. Framework narrative — enterprise risk for the junior explorer. Control depth when heat-maps are not enough — DIY bowtie analysis. Broker pack — D&O, PI and environmental cover gaps.
Keep the register live in Excel. Point everything else at it.
New ground — mining approvals for ASX junior miners. Spend and forfeiture — the tenement expenditure cliff. Rig go-ahead — DIY bowtie analysis.
Read the approvals pillar before you promise dates to the board. Read the cliff piece before you promise spend.
Forty duties. Nine categories. Gap register. Board dashboard. Excel plus a six-page explainer.
Get the toolkit →Thirty pre-written risks. Owner, control, cadence, duty link. Heat-map auto-plot. Excel plus an explainer.
Get the kit →Tuned for the junior miner operating rhythm: quarterly lodgement windows, AGM timing, tenement renewal cycles, and the regulatory news that actually matters.
Useful when your issue cuts across tenements, risk and disclosure in the same month and you want a sane reading order before the board meeting.