Lonmin Plc announces display of Drill Core from its Sudbury PGM Joint Venture

Lonmin Plc announces display of Drill Core from its Sudbury PGM Joint Venture   
(Incorporated in England and Wales)                                             
(Registered in the Republic of South Africa under registration number           
1969/000015/10)                                                                 
JSE code:LON                                                                    
Issuer Code: LOLMI & ISIN: GB0031192486                                         
("Lonmin")                                                                      
7 March 2006                                                                    
Lonmin Plc Announces Display of Drill Core from its Sudbury PGM Joint Venture   
Lonmin Plc announces that it will be displaying, with Inco Limited, diamond     
drill core on March 7 and 8 at the Core Shack at the Prospectors & Developers   
Association of Canada (PDAC) Conference to be held in Toronto, Canada, from     
their previously announced Sudbury PGM joint venture.  Lonmin entered into the  
joint venture with Inco in January 2005 to explore for low sulphide high PGE-Au 
mineralisation on six Inco properties: Levack North, Trillabelle, Denison,      
McKim, Capre and Wisner.                                                        
The joint venture has targeted a type of PGE-Au mineralisation  recently        
identified in Sudbury Ontario, where high grades of PGE"s are associated with   
low levels of copper-nickel sulphides (low sulphide high PGE-Au mineralization).
This type of mineralisation has become an increasingly higher profile           
exploration target in the Sudbury Basin and is being explored, evaluated and in 
some instances mined by a number of companies.                                  
The following diamond drill core and analytical results resulting from this     
joint venture will be shown:                                                    
                                                        Core                    
Property           Hole Number   From       To          length     % Ni         
                               m          m           (m)                       
Denison            LM0010-0      373.8      380.0       6.2        0.23         
                   LM0010-0      464.6      472.7       8.1        0.08         
Denison            LM0014-0      514.0      529.3       15.3       0.11         
                   LM0014-0      529.3      544.5       15.2       0.96         
Wisner             LM0068-0      21.2       41.3        20.1       0.02         
                   Including     39.0       41.3        2.3        0.05         
Wisner             LM0065-0      4.1        4.8         0.7        0.31         
                   LM0065-0      10.4       18.8        8.4        0.04         
Levack North       85536 -P                             56.0       0.09         
                               1023.7     1079.7                                
Property           % Cu          Pt g/t     Pd g/t      Au g/t     Pt-Pd-Au     
                                                              g/t               
Denison            0.08          2.45       7.09        8.14       17.68        
                   0.02          1.09       3.97        3.79       8.85         
Denison            0.11          1.10       2.04        0.86       4.00         
                   1.17          0.78       1.20        0.31       2.29         
Wisner             0.09          0.89       0.75        0.27       1.91         
                   0.41          3.29       3.09        0.96       7.34         
Wisner             1.06          1.28       1.98        0.88       4.14         
                   0.16          1.15       1.13        0.35       2.63         
Levack North       1.29          2.69       5.54        1.08       9.31         
Details of the quality control procedures for these drill results are as        
follows:  Half core samples are delivered to the ALS Chemex sample preparation  
facility in Sudbury, Ontario, where the entire sample is weighed and then       
crushed to 70% -10 mesh.  ALS Chemex then homogenizes the crushed reject by     
passing it once through a Jones riffle and then recombines the two halves from  
which a 200-250 gram portion is split using the same Jones riffle. The split is 
ring pulverised to 85% -200 mesh from which a 100 gram split is sent to their   
analytical facilities in Vancouver, British Columbia.                           
All of the samples with sulphide contents greater than 10% are analysed by their
ME-ICP81 (formerly A6 procedure) for Cu, Ni, Co, Fe, S, As, Pb and Zn (0.2 grams
of sample are fused with 2.6 grams of Na2O2 in zirconium crucibles), for Au, Pt 
and Pd by fire assay/ICP (PGM-ICP23) and for low-level As, Pb and Ag by nitric  
aqua regia digestion/AAS (AA45). All three procedures are ISO 9002 certified.   
Results, which exceed the upper limit of the procedures, are redone by an       
appropriate assay method for the element and level of concentration.            
Samples with sulphide contents of less than 10% are submitted for the ME-ICP61+ 
PGM-ICP23 procedure. This package is a total acid digestion that assays for Au, 
Pt, Pd, Ag, Al, As, Ba, Be, Bi, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, Ni,  
P, Pb, S, Sb, Sr, Ti, V, W and Zn. A prepared sample (0.250 gram) is digested   
with perchloric, nitric and hydrofluoric acids. The sample is then further      
digested in a small amount of hydrochloric acid. This solution is analyzed by   
inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry and the results are     
corrected for spectral inter element interferences.                             
Inco Limited, joint venturer with Lonmin Plc, takes no responsibility for nor   
makes any representation or warranty of any kind relating to the information    
contained in this news release. S. N. Sheard, Inco Limited"s Vice President     
Exploration, a Qualified Person for the purposes of NI 43-101 of the Canadian   
Securities Administration, has reviewed the technical content of this press     
release.                                                                        
Contact:                                                                        
Alex Shorland-Ball                           + 44 (0)20 7 201 6060              
Vice President - Investor Relations                                             
Lonmin Plc                                                                      
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