Total Voting Rights

For immediate release: 30 September 2010

SIRIUS Minerals Plc

("Sirius" or the "Company")

Total Voting Rights

For the purposes of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules of the Financial Services Authority, the Board of Sirius Minerals Plc is required to notify the market of the following:

As at the date of this announcement, the Company's issued share capital consists of 715,606,602 ordinary shares with a nominal value of 0.25 p each, with voting rights ("Ordinary Shares"). The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in Treasury.

Therefore the total number of Ordinary Shares in the Company with voting rights is 715,606,602.

The above figure of 715,606,602 Ordinary Shares may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Service Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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Sirius Minerals Plc

Richard Poulden Mobile: +971 504 524 994

[email protected]

Jonathan Harrison Mobile: + 44 78 7988 7755

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Beaumont Cornish Limited

Roland Cornish Tel: +44 (0)20 7628 3396

GTH Media Relations

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