Romarco announces head office relocation - Appoints Henderson to Haile

SPARKS, NV, June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - ROMARCO MINERALS INC. (TSXV: R)
(the "Company") announces that it will be consolidating its head office
operations in Toronto, Ontario, bringing together the functions currently
carried out in Vancouver, B.C. and Sparks, Nevada. Certain staff members will
be relocating to the Company's offices in Toronto, however Mr. James Meek,
CFO, will not be relocating and as such will be leaving the Company. The
Company's Controller, Dat Huynh will remain in charge of the accounting and
reporting functions of the Company. Mr. Huynh is a designated C.G.A. and
performed all of the accounting and financial functions of the Company during
the year prior to Mr. Meek joining. In addition to Mr. Huynh, Romarco has two
degreed accountants on staff.
The Company is also pleased to announce that Mr. Roy Henderson has joined the
Company as Controller of Haile Gold Mine. Mr. Henderson has a distinguished
career in mining accounting, holding the positions of V.P. Finance, Corporate
Controller, Director of Internal Audit, and Mine Site Controller for a number
of mining companies including Santa Fe Pacific, Nord Resources, Cobre Mining
and AMAX Potash Corporation.
Jim Arnold, Sr. V.P. and COO commented, "I worked with Mr. Henderson during my
tenure at Santa Fe Pacific and am delighted to have him on our team. His
experience in mine site accounting, budgeting, taxation and cost accounting
systems will be very valuable as the Haile Mine continues to grow and develop
into a producing operation". Mr. Henderson will reside in South Carolina.
Diane Garrett, President and CEO said "given the growth and development of
Romarco we believe locating our headquarters in Toronto is an important
further step. We thank Mr. Meek for his service to the Company. The Company
has begun making arrangements necessary for the relocation and expects to have
completed most of the transition by the end of July, 2009. A search for a new
CFO to replace Mr. Meek will be launched immediately".

Romarco Minerals Inc. is a gold development company focused on production in
the US and Mexico. The Company's flagship project is the Haile Gold Mine in
South Carolina which is currently undergoing exploration drilling, development
planning and permitting. The Pinos Gold District in Mexico is a high grade
epithermal vein district in the advanced exploration stage.

ON BEHALF OF ROMARCO MINERALS INC.
"Diane R. Garrett"
Diane R. Garrett,
President and C.E.O.

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SOURCE Romarco Minerals Inc.

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