Kenmare Makes Key Appointments

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
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Murray Consultants
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