Board Appointment

Ovoca Resources PLC
07 July 2005


7 July 2005

Ovoca Resources plc ('Ovoca' or the 'Company')





Mr. Guy Pas joins Board of Directors





Ovoca Resources plc the AIM (OVG.L in London) and IEX (OVX.I in Dublin) listed
Gold and Platinum Exploration Company is pleased to announce the appointment of
Mr. Guy Pas to Ovoca's Board of Directors, as a non-executive Director,
effective today, 7 July 2005.



Guido ('Guy') Edward M. Pas (54) held the position of Vice President (Structured
Trade/Commodity Finance) at Chase Manhattan Bank (Belgium, France, Switzerland)
between 1973 and 1983. In 1984 he joined the oil trading community and in 1987
co-founded The Addax & Oryx Group, currently a private African focused oil
production and trading group.  In 1989 he co-founded, and was chairman of, Samax
Resources, a company that discovered several gold deposits in Tanzania and in
1998 was acquired by Ashanti Goldfields.  In 1995 he was founder of Mano River
Resources, a TSXV and AIM listed company with whom he currently holds the
position of chairman. He was a director of Oxus Gold between 1997 and 2002. In
2004 he co-founded Afren, an AIM listed African oil & gas exploration company,
of which he is still a director. He is also director of a number of other
private resources companies and of Synergy Resources Fund.  Since its break up
he has been involved in a number of mining projects within the Former Soviet
Union.



Mr. Pas has held the following directorships or partnerships in the past 5
years:


Current                                              Previous
Eastbound Resources Ltd.                             Vector XXI Finance SA
Synergy Resources Fund Ltd.                          Oxus Gold Plc
Synergy Resources Advisors Ltd.
Synergy Energy Capital Partners Ltd.
Mano River Resources Inc.
Artemis Diamonds Inc.
Liberian Gold Corporation Inc.
Boreal Minerals Plc
Afren Plc
Norplat Limited



There are no details specified by Schedule 2 (g) of the AIM Rules and the IEX
Rules to be disclosed by Mr. Pas.



Eastbound Resources, a resource holding controlled by Mr. Pas, currently holds
4,054,536 shares in Ovoca representing 3.67% of Ovoca's issued share capital.



Mr. Roger Turner, Chairman of Ovoca, stated "The board welcomes Guy Pas and the
valuable experience he will add to the Ovoca Board. His experience in the
Russian resource sector will be invaluable. We worked together when he was a
member of the Oxus Gold plc Board and I look forward to a long and successful
involvement with him. Ovoca is proving up what could be a major gold find on the
Kola Licences in Russia. Recent high grade gold assays from the ongoing drilling
programme gave several intersections yielding in excess of 2.5 ounces per tonne.
The board hopes to be in a position to announce further assay results in the
very near future."









Contacts

Barrie Oakes  [phone]

Roger Turner  [phone]

John O'Connor  [phone]

Richard O'Shea  [phone]

John Frain (Davy Corporate Finance) [phone]





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                           the Irish Stock Exchange.










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