Holding(s) in Company

KENMARE RESOURCES PLC

The following notification was received by Kenmare on 23 January,
2006.



The Company Secretary
Kenmare Resources PLC
Chatham House
Chatham Street
Dublin 2
Ireland



6 January, 2006



Dear Sir/Madam,
RE: DECLARATION OF INTEREST IN SHARES
In accordance with Part IV of the Companies Act 1985 (as amended), we
write to inform you that  Artemis Investment Management Limited,  and
certain of its  subsidiary companies, have  a notifiable interest  of
34,040,000 shares, representing 4.99% of the issued share capital  of
your company.
This disclosure was a result of shares in issue changing.
Full details of the interest and the beneficial holders are  detailed
below.
Yours faithfully,

NICOLA COLLINS
Artemis Investment management Ltd



Beneficial Owner             Number of Shares held % interest
Artemis UK Smaller Companies 34,040,000            4.99849583




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