RNS Number:1019M
Avocet Mining PLC
10 June 2003


                                             Avocet Mining PLC
                                             7th Floor  9 Berkeley Street
                                             London  W1J 8DW
                                             Tel     +44 (0) 20 7907 9000
                                             Fax     +44 (0) 20 7907 9019
                                             E-mail  avocetmining@avocet.co.uk
                                             www.avocet.co.uk



                             NEW BOARD APPOINTMENT

Avocet is pleased to announce the appointment of Johannes Oelofse to the Board
of Directors of the Company.  Johannes is currently the Group's Chief Operating
Officer.  He is a mining engineer with over 20 years' experience in South
Africa, Uganda, Mozambique, Argentina, USA, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan
and China.  He has a B Eng degree from Pretoria University in South Africa and
an MSc at Camborne School of Mines in the UK.

Alan Brooks has resigned as Company Secretary and will be leaving the Company
shortly to pursue other interests.  Alan McFarlane, the Company's Vice President
of Finance, will take over as Company Secretary with immediate effect.  Avocet
wishes Alan Brooks every success for his future.

Avocet is a mining company listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of
the London Stock Exchange.  The Company's principal activities are gold mining
and exploration in Malaysia (as 100% owner of the Penjom mine, the country's
largest gold producer), Tajikistan (as 49% owner and operator of the Zeravshan
Gold Company, Tajikistan's principal gold mine), and Indonesia (as 80% owner of
an advanced stage gold exploration property in North Sulawesi, currently at the
feasibility stage).




Matters required under Schedule 2(f) of the AIM Rules in respect of appointment
of director

Full name of proposed director: Johannes Gerhardus Oelofse

Age: 42

Names of current and past directorships in the past five years:

Current                                              Past
Commonwealth and British Minerals Limited            Commonwealth and British 
Zeravshan Gold Company Limited                       Services Limited


There are no matters to be disclosed under Schedule 2(f) (iii) - (viii)
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For further information please contact:

Avocet Mining PLC                                    4C Communications Ltd
John Catchpole (Chief Executive)                     Carina Corbett
Jonathan Henry (Finance Director)                    020 8949 7171
020 7907 9000                                        020 7907 4761
www.avocet.co.uk


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