Riversdale Mining Limited Makes Key Appointments to Southern African Operations

Riversdale Mining Limited (ASX: RIV or “the Company”) is pleased to advise that the company has made several new appointments to its senior executive team in South Africa and Mozambique.
The latest round of appointments include the company bolstering the ranks of its senior management team through the appointment of General Managers for mining operations in both South Africa and Mozambique.
In Mozambique, Riversdale Mining has appointed Mr Leon Fanoe as General Manager as the company’s hard coking and thermal coal operations at the worldclass Benga Coal Project move towards first production. He will be based in Tete.
Mr Fanoe is a mining professional with extensive experience in Southern Africa, including senior management roles in both underground and open‐cut operations at BHP Billiton PLC. Most recently he was the Chief Operating Officer at Umcebu Mining and prior to that the General Manager of BHP Billiton's Douglas Colliery, where he was responsible for a range of technical operational and commercial aspects of the coal mining business, as well as managing community relations.
In South Africa, the company has also appointed Mr Hardus Combrink as General Manager at Riversdale Mining’s Zululand Anthracite Colliery. He will be based in Zululand. Mr Combrink is a mining engineer with over 20 years experience in mining and related activities. More recently he was a senior manager with one of South Africa’s largest mining contracting firms, managing a range of major operations and expansion projects in the country. Hardus joins ZAC from his most recent role as General Manager at the Springlake Colliery in Kwa‐Zulu Natal. Mr Combrink and Mr Fanoe will report to the Chief Operating Officer (Africa) Andries Engelbrecht.
To provide for increasing sales from its current mine operations in South Africa and to commence preparation for the sale of future production of hard coking and thermal coal from the Benga Coal Project in Mozambique, the company has appointed its first Mozambiquan‐born Group Marketing Manager, Mr Ricky Pinheiro as Group Marketing Manager.
Mr Pinheiro will be based in Johannesburg and has a mandate to develop the company’s coal marketing capabilities in domestic and international markets. He has some 30 years’ experience in the field, during which time he worked for a number of companies including Falcon Research Laboratory, Inspectorate M&L, CSIR, AfriOre and Petmin Limited. In addition to his outstanding business credentials, he is an Honorary Professor at the Coal and Carbon Research Group of the School of Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.