Directorate change

New Director Appointment

25 August July 2010 - European Nickel PLC ("European Nickel" or the "Company")
(AIM, PLUS, ASX: ENK) is pleased to announce the appointment of John Wallace
McManus (aged 52 years), following his nomination by the Hunter Dickinson group
("HDI")'s affiliate Constantia Resources Ltd, as their Director to the Board,
effective immediately.

A mining engineer with over 28 years of industry experience, John McManus is
Senior Vice President, Operations at Taseko Mines Limited, a HDI related
company. During his time at HDI, he managed the $300 million production
expansion at the Taseko Mines' operation, Gibraltar Mine, oversaw the 200%
increase in ore reserves and was involved in the successful negotiation and
formation of $800 million Gibraltar joint venture with a Japanese trader and
smelter consortium.  Prior to joining HDI in 2005, Mr McManus has held various
senior management positions in mining and environmental engineering, mine
operations, mine management, and corporate level mine development and operations
at Teck Resources Limited, including General Manager of Coal Mountain.

Simon Purkiss, Executive Deputy Chairman of European Nickel, said: "I am
delighted to welcome John McManus to the Board, as a representative of our
strategic partner and shareholder, HDI's nominated Director.  John's wealth of
operational experience will compliment our management team as we deliver the
Çalda? project through development and construction into production in 2012."

Mr McManus is a citizen of the United States and Canada, who graduated from the
Colorado School of Mines with a degree in Mining Engineering and he is currently
Chairman of the Mining Association of British Columbia.

Save as disclosed in this announcement there is no further information that is
required to be disclosed pursuant to Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules for
Companies.


For more information, please visit www.enickel.co.uk or contact:
Simon Purkiss, Deputy Executive Chairman, European Nickel Tel: +44 20 7290 3130

Mark Hanlon, Finance Director, European Nickel Tel: +61 8 9226 1111

Andrew Chubb or Tarica Mpinga, Canaccord Genuity Tel: +44 20 7050 6500

Alex Buck, BuckBias Tel: +44 7932 740 452


Notes to Editors:
European Nickel is (AIM, PLUS, ASX: ENK) is an emerging mid-tier nickel laterite
producer focused on growth. The Çalda? project in Turkey is the Company's
flagship asset with near-term production and will be the world's first
commercial scale nickel laterite heap leach operation. The Company's key
competitive advantage over its peers is its proven proprietary, simple heap
leaching process which produces a mixed hydroxide product at lower capital and
operating costs than conventional forms of nickel laterite processing
technologies.


Hunter Dickinson is a private mineral development company based in Vancouver,
Canada. HDI is associated with a suite of publicly-traded companies engaged in
mineral exploration, development and mine operations around the world. HDI's
multi-disciplinary team of 120 financial and technical specialists provides
professional services to successful mine operators and developers on four
continents, with interests in gold, copper, platinum group metals, zinc,
molybdenum and silver. HDI-managed companies have a successful track record for
identifying, acquiring, developing, permitting and mining globally significant
mineral deposits.


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