Awards won by Petra Diamonds

PLC Awards 2011 – ‘New Company of the Year’ Award
1st March 2012

CEO, Johan Dippenaar, accepting the 2011 PLC award for ‘New Company of the Year’.

About New Company of the Year Award:

“In short, a future company of the year, but one that has too short a track record to be considered for that award. The winner will have gone public in 2011, yet will already have demonstrated that it possesses both growth and management qualities. It will, in effect, have served notice to the investing community that this is a formidable growth company in the making.”

Petra’s step up from AIM to the Main Market in December 2011 was another important development in the Company’s progress, underscoring Petra’s transformation from a junior diamond exploration company to a leading independent diamond producer. The Main Market is the appropriate platform for the Company’s continued growth, allowing a broader range of investors seeking direct exposure to the positive long term fundamentals of the diamond market to invest in Petra. Petra will continue to follow an exceptional growth path as the Company looks to take production from just over 1 million carats in FY 2011 to over 5 million carats by FY 2019.

Quoted Company Awards 2011 – ‘Emerging Markets CEO of the Year’ Award
25th January 2012

CEO, Johan Dippenaar, accepting the 2011 Quoted Company Award for ‘Emerging Markets CEO of the Year’.

About ‘Emerging Markets CEO of the Year’ Award:

"This award seeks to recognise the CEO who has during the past year created the most value for shareholders from the world’s emerging markets, or most astutely positioned his or her business for long-term growth derived from the globe’s developing economies. Our winner will lead a London-listed concern whose operations are mainly emerging economies-facing. The judging panel will consider the leveraging of local knowledge and contacts and lucrative corporate deals (contracts signed, acquisitions concluded) struck, as well as the financial and share price performances of the companies in question.”

This award recognises the efforts of Johan Dippenaar who, in combination with the Petra team, has led the Company through a period of extraordinary growth, taking Petra’s portfolio of producing diamond mines from three to eight and firmly establishing the Company as a leading independent producer. Johan has over 20 years’ experience in the leadership and management of producing diamond mining companies, having been CEO of ASX-quoted Crown Diamonds (“Crown”) prior to Crown’s merger with Petra in 2005. Petra will continue to follow an exceptional growth path as the Company looks to take production from just over 1 million carats in FY 2011 to over 5 million carats in FY 2019.

AIM Awards 2011 – ‘Transaction of the Year’ Award
13th October 2011

Finance Director, David Abery, accepting the 2011 AIM Award for ‘Transaction of the Year’

About ‘AIM Transaction of the Year’ Award

“The winner of this Award will be a company that has been transformed by a single financial or commercial transaction during the period under review. This is necessarily a wide ranging award, given to recognise a significant achievement by a company in transforming itself, literally at a stroke, and thereby creating significant shareholder value.”

Petra was awarded AIM Transaction of the Year for the US$192 million acquisition of the important Finsch diamond mine in South Africa from De Beers, further to an equity placing in which the company raised £205 Million (US$325 Million). The acquisition is a continuation of Petra’s strategy to build a world-class diamond mining group. Finsch mine is expected to more than double Petra’s annual production in its first full year of production and it increases the Group’s gross resources base to over 300 million carats (being the world’s third largest diamond resource outside of De Beers and Alrosa). Finsch adds an eighth producing mine to the Group, consolidating Petra’s position as London’s largest quoted diamond mining group and providing a strong platform for the Company’s move to the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.

UK Stockmarket Awards 2011 – ‘Best Investor Communications’ Award
31st March 2011

Corporate Communications Manager, Cathy Malins, accepting the 2011 UK Stockmarket Award for ‘Best Investor Communications’.

About ‘Best Investor Communications’ Award

“This category recognises those companies which have most effectively disseminated information to existing and potential shareholders across the full range of media – official RNS press releases, their annual report, webcasts, their website and via their public relations representative – regarding all aspects of their financial performance, strategy and market positioning.”

Petra was awarded Best Investor Communications further to the great emphasis placed upon this area by management and the corporate communications team. The Company carries out regular assessments in order to ensure that its marketing materials comply with best practice, and it seeks to convey consistent and clear messages across its website, annual report, presentations and other investor documents. The team is committed to continuous improvement, with the aim that its communications programme will progress and grow in stature, in line with Petra’s exceptional growth profile.

AIM Awards 2010 – 'Transaction of the Year' Award
14th October 2010

Non-Executive Chairman, Adonis Pouroulis, accepting the 2010 AIM Award for 'Transaction of the Year'.

About 'Transaction of the Year' Award

"The winner of this new Award will be a company that has been transformed by a single financial or commercial transaction during the period under review. This is necessarily a wide ranging award, given to recognise a significant achievement by a company in transforming itself, literally at a stroke, and thereby creating significant shareholder value."

2010 was a highly successful year for Petra, when the Company raised US$120 million in an equity fundraising, acquired a further 37% of its flagship Cullinan mine, completed the acquisition of Kimberley Underground mines and sold the 507 carat Cullinan Heritage diamond for US$35 million, the highest price on record for a rough diamond.

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