Canadian diamond miner Rockwell Diamonds Inc has appointed Graham Chamberlain as its chief operating officer, effective November 1, 2009.
Mr Chamberlain is a mining engineer with mineral resource and financial skills, as well as 26 years of engineering, operational and management experience in the mining industry. “Graham’s mix of engineering, mineral resource and financial training, coupled with extensive operational experience in the senior and mid-tier mining sector, is ideally suited to strengthening Rockwell’s management and operational team. His hands-on management and operational skills will provide Rockwell with additional capacity to supplement the small and dynamic team already in place, and his appointment will add value and assist in growing the company in the future,” John Bristow, president and CEO of the company, said in a statement.
He believes that the recruitment of a COO and the recent addition of two experienced independent directors will stand the company in great stead as it emerges from the challenges of the economic recession and refocuses its strategy to become a world class junior alluvial diamond miner.
