Haranga Resources Limited announce the appointment of Mr. Peter Batten as Managing Director, effective immediately. Mr. Batten, (BAppSc (Geol), MAusIMM) has over 30 years of international and Australian exploration, operational and technical experience across a range of roles. Mr. Batten most recently worked as Managing Director at silica sand focused Carbine Resources Ltd. and non-Executive Director at energy metal focussed Tambourah Metals.

Although qualified as a geologist Mr. Batten has a range of relevant resource experience, including: At Bannerman Resources, Mr. Batten applied for the licences for the company, in Namibia, that became the focus during the 2006 to 2008 uranium boom. During his tenure as Managing Director, he then ensured the granting of the key tenements and commenced the good relationship between the company and government that exists to date. Prior to Mr. Batten leaving Bannerman the company had defined over 100Mlbs of U3O8 in resources, commenced the feasibility studies, helped establish the Namibian nuclear material stewardship as a founding member and worked with the local communities to establish business opportunities.

At White Canyon Uranium Ltd. Mr. Batten negotiated a toll milling and sale agreement for the Company's Utah production with Canada's Denison Mines. White Canyon was the first company to be granted a new mining licence for uranium in Utah in 30 years. At the time White Canyon was the only junior ASX listed uranium company in production.

The Denison agreement led to the eventual takeover of White Canyon by Denison in February 2011. At Kalia Ltd, as Technical Director, Mr. Batten successfully applied for two exploration licences in the north of Bougainville Island in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. These licences were the first issued under the region's new mining laws and resulted in the first exploration activity since the cessation of business in 1989.

Kalia completed a heliborne magnetic survey and several programmes highlighting gold and copper mineralisation from epithermal geology. More recently, at Carbine Resources Limited, Mr. Batten completed a maiden Mineral Resource Estimate at the company's priority Muchea West silica sand project, 40 kilometres north of Perth WA. Following the completion of a Scoping Study Carbine applied for a Mining Licence at Muchea.

The company also secured a secondary project, the Down South Silica Sand project, at Bunbury Western Australia.