Cockatoo Coal Limited announced that Mr. Peter Richards has been appointed as the Independent Chairman
and Mr. Rod Ruston has been appointed as an Independent Director of the company. Peter Richards has over 30 years of experience in the mining services and industrial sectors with global companies including BP plc, Wesfarmers, Dyno Nobel Limited and, most recently, Norfolk Group Limited where he served as Managing Director. In his time at Dyno Nobel, where he was Managing Director and CEO, Peter held a number of senior executive positions in both North America and Asia Pacific. Rod Ruston is an Australian mining engineer with nearly 40 years' experience in the resources industry, where he has had a wide range of roles including managing coal mining companies in Australia, building a heavy minerals (titanium) business in South Africa and leading a heavy construction and mining contractor in the Alberta oil sands in Canada.