Rockwell Appoints Operations Manager, Financial Manager

Rockwell Diamonds Inc. has appointed Hans Gastrow as Operations Manager - Processing and Recovery Plant to oversee and optimize its diamond processing and recovery plants, and Johan Oosthuizen as Financial Manager responsible for financial oversight and planning at the company's operations near Kimberley in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa.

Gastrow is a mining engineer with broad engineering, operational, and managerial experience and skills in diamond mining in South Africa.

Over his diamond career, he had considerable involvement in processing, extraction and final recovery plant development, recovery audit and optimization procedures, operational enhancement systems, and health and safety procedures. He also gained widespread exposure to the mining, geology, and evaluation of diamond deposits as well as extensive management experience including 15 years spent as general manager at various De Beers diamond mining operations including the Koffiefontein, Kimberley, Venetia and Cullinan mines.

Gastrow will work on a contract basis for an initial six months, whereafter the parties may mutually agree to Hans becoming an employee of the company.

Oosthuizen is an accountant with extensive business experience in mining, manufacturing, and the financial sector. He served with Eskom Pension and Provident Fund, the benefit fund of South Africa's electricity utility, as General Manager of Finance and Administration for 12 years to 1998. He later joined De Beers, initially as a financial analyst with De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited and following restructuring, assumed the role of finance business partner to the Technical Division of De Beers Group Services (Pty) Limited.