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Update and appointments
Update and appointments.
About this update from Red Rock Resources Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 1821G Red Rock Resources plc 09 May 2011 \n \n\nRED ROCK RESOURCES PLC\nUpdate and Appointments\nDated: 9 May 2011\n \nRed Rock Resources plc (\"Red Rock\" or the \"Company\"), the gold mining and exploration company with projects in Kenya, and Colombia, and interests in steel feed, uranium, and rare earths reports on developments.\n \nAppointments\n \nThe Company is pleased to announce appointments at its 24.7 per cent. associate Resource Star Limited (ASX: RSL) and in its Colombian operations.\n \nRSL, the ASX listed uranium and specialty metals exploration company, has appointed Simon Heggen as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer as RSL moves to a new phase of its development on both the exploration and the corporate fronts. Simon Heggen brings with him over 25 years of Australian and international corporate and business development experience spent largely in the resource sector. Between 1995 and 2005, He was Group Manager Business Development at WMC Resources, the publicly listed company acquired by BHP Billiton. He has also worked at managerial and board level at other leading companies, including Boral, Wesfarmers, and Schroders Australia. Most recently he served as a director of Austock Corporate Finance from 2007 to 2009, focused on equity capital market and merger and acquisition transactions, and as director of a private corporate advisory company. \n \nAndrew Bell, Red Rock's representative on the RSL board, will remain on the RSL Board as its chairman.\n \nRichard Evans remains as a consultant and geological adviser to RSL, and will take up in addition a wider role within Red Rock as Chief Scientific Adviser. Mr Evans has a BSc degree in geology from the University of Melbourne and a postgraduate qualification in business studies. He is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, with 25 years' experience in the mining industry. He spent 18 years with WMC Limited in a variety of technical, commercial and managerial roles; including front-line exploration and production, project assessment and feasibility. This also included five years based in South Africa and Mozambique progressing WMC's Corridor Sands Project. Since 2009 he has worked with RSL as CEO and latterly as geological consultant. \n \nThe full text of the annou...