Management Appointment

18 March 2013

Beacon Hill Resources Plc / AIM: BHR / ASX: BHU / Sector: Mining

Beacon Hill Resources Plc ('Beacon Hill or 'the Company')

Beacon Hill Strengthens Executive Management Team

The Board of Beacon Hill Resources is pleased to announce the following additions to its senior management team. John Daly has joined the Company as Chief Operating Officer and Mac Van Der Merwe has joined the Company as Operations Manager Rail (both effective 1st March). Both John and Mac will report to Rowan Karstel, Chief Executive Officer.

Rowan Karstel, CEO commented:

"I am delighted to have secured both John and Mac to join the Beacon Hill senior management team. Both bring the benefit of over 40 years of cumulative experience in the sector and are highly respected in their fields of expertise. The new additions strengthen the Company's Executive Committee at a critical time and will play a key role in ramping up the Minas Moatize coking coal mine into full production."

Background Profiles

John Daly, Chief Operating Officer

John Daly has been appointed Chief Operating Officer effective 1 March 2013.

Most recently John has been Director of Mining and Technical Services at AMCI Africa for their Mozambican and South African operations. Prior to this John worked at BHP Billiton as General Manager at Savmore Colliery and Emaswati Coal. He also worked as Operations Manager at Middleburg mine and Zululand Anthracite Colliery. Middelburg Mine is one of the largest open cut mines in the Witbank Coal fields, South Africa.

Mac van der Merwe, Operations Manager Rail

Mac van der Merwe has been appointed Operations Manager Rail effective from 1 March 2013.

Mac brings a wealth of rail and port experience to complement the emerging Minas Moatize rail operation. Mac is a professional Civil Engineer with coal trading qualifications from Oxford University and an honours degree in Civil Engineering from University of Pretoria.

Over the past thirty years, Mac has held various positions in rail and port most recently as a consultant in Rail and Port at BHP Billiton. Prior to this Mac was Project Manager Rail and Port at CIC Energy for the 1,400km Trans Kalahari Railway project linking Botswana with the Port of Walvis Bay where he completed conceptual and pre-feasibility studies. Mac has previously worked for COALlink/Orex as a Business/Commercial Manager and as Project Leader for the Eskom Majuba Power Station rail projects. He has also held various senior positions at Transnet freight rail.

The Board welcomes John and Mac to Beacon Hill Resources PLC and wish them the best in their new roles. The Board will announce further management additions in due course.