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Tom Dale

Chief Executive Officer

BSc Hons (Mining Engineering); MBA

Mr. Dale was appointed as CEO and a director of Platmin on 1st December 2009. He started his career as a miner with JCI in 1973 and was awarded the prestigious Ronnie Wilton scholarship in 1979. During his 15 year career with JCI, he held senior line management positions at the Randfontein Estates and Western Areas gold mines and Tavistock collieries. In 1987 he joined a stockbroking firm at the JSE, becoming a rated gold analyst the following year and head of investment research thereafter. In 1991 Mr. Dale joined the industrial minerals division of Gencor to work with Keeley granite. Later in this decade he was appointed as FD and then MD of the gold division. After the merger of the gold assets of Gencor and GFSA to form Gold Fields Ltd, he was appointed as MD of that company and led the team which turned it around to profitability. In 2000 Mr. Dale joined Mopani Copper Mines in Zambia as CEO for a 20-month contract and before joining Platmin was the CEO of Sallies, a local fluorspar producer since early 2007.

Casper Badenhorst

General Manager: Pilanesburg Platinum Mine

B-Tech Degree Geology (Pr Sci Nat)

Casper Badenhorst was appointed General Manager of Platmin’s Pilanesberg Platinum Mine on 6 January 2010. Prior to this, Casper spent five years, between 2001 and 2006, with Sallies’ Witkop mine, before assuming the position of General Manager of Witkop in 2007. Casper has 15 years’ experience in the fields of geology, mining and mineral extraction.

Wayne Koonin

Chief Financial Officer

B.Com; B.Acc; CA(SA)

Mr. Koonin obtained a B Comm (Accounting) in 1995 and a B Acc in 1996 from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and qualified as a Chartered Accountant (South Africa) in 1997 . Mr. Koonin has a wealth of experience in the international resources sector, having spent many years working for both listed and private corporations in South Africa, Canada and the United Kingdom. Mr. Koonin has most recently held the position of CFO at Ivanhoe Nickel and Platinum Limited, a Canadian exploration company with large-scale nickel, platinum and copper projects in South Africa, Zambia, the DRC and Australia. Mr Koonin previously held senior financial positions in the coal and gold sectors, at Duiker Coal Mining Limited (now Xstrata Coal South Africa) and at DRDGold Limited. Mr. Koonin has also worked for the accounting firm of Ernst & Young Southern Africa.

Terence Holohan

Head: Business Development and Exploration

C.Eng.

Terence (Terry) Holohan joined Platmin in June 2007 as Chief Operating Officer, becoming head of Exploration and Development in early 2010. This follows the reorganisation of the management structure of the company as Platmin makes the transition from being an exploration company into an operating company.

Terry Holohan graduated in 1979 with a Bachelors of Science degree in Physical and Extractive Metallurgy from Leeds University (United Kingdom) and is a Chartered Engineer (QP) through the IMMM (United Kingdom). Prior to joining Platmin, from 2003 to mid-2006, Terry held the position of Senior Vice President for Ivanhoe Nickel and Platinum Limited and was an executive member of the board of directors from mid-2006. He has extensive experience in the design, construction and operation of large PGM mines, smelters and refineries previously (2002 to 2003) holding positions as Business Manager, and Alternative Director, for Anglo Platinum and its subsidiary that operated the Waterval Smelter and Rustenburg Base Metal Refinery. He has more than 30 years’ experience in the PGMs industry, of which six have been in pure exploration and 24 in operations.

Jan van der Merwe

Exploration Manager

BSc (Hons) Geology

Mr. van der Merwe obtained a BSc Honours in Geology from the University of Pretoria, South Africa in 1982. Prior to joining Platmin as Exploration Manager in August 2008, Mr. van der Merwe held the position of Senior Exploration Manager for Lonmin PLC (2006 to mid 2008). His 20 years at Lonmin include senior positions at both Eastern and Western Platinum, while his experience in the sector ranges from mining geology in the Bushveld Complex to strategic experience within the PGE mining and exploration environment.

John Derbyshire

 Manager Metallurgy

Pr Eng, B.Sc. Eng. (Chem.)

Mr. Derbyshire has 29 years plant operational and project experience in senior positions in the zinc, gold, coal and platinum industries including Zinc Corporation, Vlakfontein and Leeudoorn Gold, Greenside Colliery, Northam Platinum and Messina Platinum. He was the Metallurgical Manager responsible for operations at Northam Platinum’s concentrator, smelter and BMR complex from 1995 to 2001 including the metallurgical aspects of the design, construction and commissioning of the 75000tpm UG2 concentrator in 2000. He was appointed Metallurgical Manager during the design, construction, and commissioning and operations phase of Southern Era’s Messina concentrators from 2001 to 2005. He consulted for Boynton Platinum before being appointed in 2005 and is currently responsible for the metallurgical aspects of the various ongoing projects.

Adv Jan Erasmus

S.A Legal Manager

BA, B.Proc, LLB

Jan read law at the University of Pretoria and the University of South Africa. He obtained the degrees B.A., B.Proc and LL.B., after which he was admitted as an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa. He was involved in local government before starting work in the nuclear industry in 1980. He held the position of Company Secretary and Chief Legal Advisor of the Atomic Energy Corporation of South Africa Limited where he gained experience in management, regulatory legislation, the commercialization of business units, contract law and the legal aspects of plant construction. In 1989 he accepted a directorship with a South African aviation company after which he practiced as an independent legal and business consultant before joining the Platmin Group in 2003.

Cobus Brönn

General Manager: Exploration and Development

Pr. Eng; MBA

Mr. Brönn joined Platmin from Lafarge South Africa, where, for the past 15 years he has held various positions in engineering and operational management at a number of underground and opencast mining operations. Most recently he served as Performance Manager at the South African mining operations of Lafarge, a position he has held since 2004. Mr. Brönn has extensive operational expertise and experience, particularly with open pit mines, which will stand Platmin in good stead as the flagship Pilanesberg project builds up to production in the first quarter of calendar 2009.

Colin Campbell

Metallurgical Manager, PPM

HND Extraction Metallurgy

Mr. Campbell has 24 years plant operational and project experience in both the gold and platinum mining industries. During his extensive career, he has played a pivotal part in the development of various innovations within the metallurgical field. Prior to joining Platmin in September 2008, Mr. Campbell was responsible for overseeing all concentrators at Aquarius Platinum’s Kroondal operation also located within the Bushveld Complex.

Dean Riley

Pilanesberg Platinum Mines Project Manager

Dean is a mechanical engineer with 25 years operational and management experience in the mining and metallurgical industry. He was previously employed at Gold Fields and Northam Platinum, where he was involved in the building of the concentrator plants, smelter and the BMR plant, and in operating the concentrators. He moved to Messina Platinum in 2001 and was responsible for the installation and equipping of the shaft complex. In 2005 he joined Lonmin as systems engineer at Marikana before being appointed at Platmin in 2007.