Director/PDMR Shareholding

10 DECEMBER 2010

Notification of Directors' and PDMRs' share dealings pursuant to DTR 3.1.4 R

Lonmin Plc (the "Company") was notified on 9 December 2010 by the Trustee of the Lonmin Employee Benefit Trust that the awards made on 5 December 2007 under the Deferred Annual Bonus Plan reached their maturity on 5 December 2010. As a consequence:

(a) The participants' Invested Shares (being ordinary shares of $1 each in the Company purchased in December 2007 (the "Shares")) were transferred into their own names on 8 December 2010;

(b) The shares comprised in the 1:1 Matched Award (on an after-tax basis) for those Shares acquired mandatorily and at risk of forfeiture during the deferral period vested in full and were released to participants; and

(c) The shares comprised in the 1:1 Matched Award (on an after-tax basis) for all Shares acquired, which was subject to performance conditions, did not vest and the award has lapsed.

Certain of the participants elected to sell some of the shares resulting from these transactions, principally to fund the tax and other liabilities arising. This took place in the London or Johannesburg markets on 8 December 2010, as detailed below

 * denotes trade conducted on the JSE

The Company was also notified of the same information by the executives concerned in discharge of their obligations under DTR 3.1.2 R on the same date.

Ends.