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Kenmare Resources plc ("Kenmare" or "the Company") 
 
                   Kenmare Makes Key Appointments 
 
2 February 2009 
 
Kenmare is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Jacob Deysel as 
Chief Operations Officer of  Kenmare and Mr.  James White as  General 
Manager of the Moma Titanium Minerals Mine in Mozambique. 
 
Jacob Deysel joins Kenmare from Richards Bay Minerals in South Africa 
where he was General  Manager for Mining  and Planning. Richards  Bay 
Minerals  is  the  world's   largest  single  producer  of   titanium 
feedstocks. Jacob  holds a  BSc in  Mine Engineering  and Masters  in 
Business Administration, both from the University of  Witwatersrand. 
He  has  worked  in  the  titanium  feedstock  industry  since  2003. 
Previously he worked with Gold  Fields Ltd at Driefontein Mine  where 
he was ultimately Operations Manager for a mining operation of  seven 
shafts and  12,000  employees producing  200,000  tonnes of  ore  per 
month.  At Richards  Bay Minerals, Jacob  has had responsibility  for 
the mine's  five plants  in addition  to geology,  mine planning  and 
maintenance. 
 
James White joins Kenmare from  Iluka Resources in Western  Australia 
where he was  Operations Manager  for South West  operations for  the 
past five years.  Iluka is the world's largest producer of zircon and 
the second largest producer of titanium feedstocks and the South West 
business unit  produces  approximately  800,000  tonnes  of  titanium 
feedstocks  per  annum.   He   was  responsible  for   organisational 
development  and  planning,  technical   management  of  the   mining 
operations and processing plants, logistics, commercial, engineering, 
human resources  and community  management.    He  previously  worked 
with Huntsman  Tioxide,  one  of the  world's  largest  producers  of 
titanium  dioxide  pigment,  for  14  years.   James  has  a  BSc  in 
Mechanical Engineering from  the Curtin University  of Technology  in 
Perth, Western Australia. 
 
"We are  very  pleased  to  announce the  appointments  of  two  such 
exceptionally experienced people," said Charles Carvill, Chairman  of 
Kenmare. "Together with the new position of Technical Director  which 
is filled by Terry  Fitzpatrick, a Director of  Kenmare who has  been 
Acting COO, we have the right people in place to address the  process 
changes that will  bring the Moma  mine into full  production in  the 
second half of this year." 
 
For more information: 
 
Kenmare Resources plc 
Tony McCluskey 
Tel: +353 1 6710411 
Mob: +353 87 674 0346 
 
Murray Consultants 
Elizabeth Headon 
Tel: +353 1 498 0300 
Mob: +353 87 989 7234 
 
Conduit PR 
Jane Stacey / Leesa Peters / Fiona Hyland 
Tel: +44 207 429 6614 
Mob: +44 7922 923 306 
 
                      www.kenmareresources.com 
 
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