PUBLICATION OF CIRCULAR

2 November 2012

Publication of Circular and Notice of Preliminary Results

A circular (the "Circular") in connection with Lonmin Plc's ("Lonmin" or the "Company") proposed rights issue (the "Proposed Rights Issue") is being posted today to Lonmin shareholders.

The Circular contains a notice convening a General Meeting of the Company's shareholders. The General Meeting will be held at 9:30 am on 19 November 2012 at the Plaisterers' Hall, One London Wall, London, EC2Y 5JU. At the General Meeting, the Company's shareholders will be asked to approve a resolution authorising the directors of Lonmin to allot securities pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 in relation to the Proposed Rights Issue (the "Resolution"). The procedures and timings for shareholders to vote on the Resolution are set out in the notes to the notice of the General Meeting in the Circular.

The Circular will shortly be available for viewing, subject to regulatory restrictions, on the Lonmin website at www.lonmin.com. A copy of the Circular will also be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.hemscott.com/nsm.

Notice of Preliminary Results

Lonmin announces that it has revised the publication date of its Final Results for the period ended 30 September 2012, from Monday 12 November 2012 to Friday 9 November 2012. 

This announcement is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of any offer to buy the securities of Lonmin in the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, or in any other jurisdiction where such offer or sale would be unlawful or to any person to whom it would be unlawful to make such offer or solicitation.

The securities of Lonmin have not been and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act"), or with any securities regulatory authority of any State or other jurisdiction of the United States, and may not be offered, sold, resold, pledged, taken up, exercised, renounced, or otherwise delivered, distributed or transferred, directly or indirectly, into or within the United States except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and in compliance with any applicable securities laws of any State or other jurisdiction of the United States. No public offering of securities of Lonmin is being made in the United States.

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