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Lonmin - Final Dividend Timetable

Release Date: 20/11/2006 07:05
Code(s): LON
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Lonmin - Final Dividend Timetable Lonmin Plc (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") 17 November 2006 LONMIN PLC - FINAL DIVIDEND TIMETABLE The Board of Lonmin Plc has recommended a final dividend for the year ended 30 September 2006 of 55 US cents per share, payable on Friday 9 February 2007. Payment of the final dividend is subject to the approval of shareholders at the AGM on 25 January 2007. Following a request from the JSE, the date for determining the USD/rand exchange rate as disclosed in the Company"s final results announcement on Wednesday 15 November 2006 has been brought forward by one day. The timetable for the final dividend for the year ended 30 September 2006 is, therefore, as follows:- UK SA
USD/rand exchange rate Thursday 28 December 2006 (noon SA time) Last day to trade cum Tuesday 9 January 2007 Friday 5 January 2007 div Last day to trade on the Friday 5 January 2007 JSE Ex div date Wednesday 10 January Monday 8 January 2007 2007
Record date Friday 12 January 2007 Friday 12 January 2007 USD/sterling exchange Friday 19 January 2007 rate Deadline for receipt of Friday 26 January 2007 Friday 26 January 2007 new DRIP applications Dividend payment date Friday 9 February 2007 Friday 9 February 2007 (1) No transfers between the UK principal register and the SA branch register will be permitted from the date on which the USD/rand exchange rate is announced to the record date, both dates inclusive (i.e. last date to transfer Wednesday 27 December 2006). (2) The SA branch register will be closed for the purposes of trades (dematerialisation and rematerialisation) from Monday 8 January 2007 to Friday 12 January 2007, both dates inclusive. (3) The dividend will be paid:- (i) In rand to shareholders on the SA branch register calculated at the US dollar to rand exchange rate on Thursday 28 December 2006; (ii) In sterling to shareholders domiciled in the UK (unless they elect to receive US dollar dividends) calculated at the US dollar to sterling exchange rate on Friday 19 January 2007; and (iii) In US dollars to all other overseas shareholders (unless they elect to receive sterling dividends or have mandated their dividends to a UK bank or participate in TAPS - see below). (4) Elections to receive an alternative currency (US dollars or sterling) should comprise a signed request to Lloyds TSB Registrars to be received by 17:00 hours on Friday 12 January 2007. (5) Transcontinental Automated Payment System (TAPS) TAPS permits shareholders resident in certain countries to receive dividend payments to their local bank and in their local currency. All eligible shareholders have been, or will be, sent information relating to TAPS by Lloyds TSB Registrars. Enquiries: Alex Shorland-Ball Lonmin Plc Vice-President, Investor Relations & Communications +44 (0) 20 7201 6060 Lloyds TSB Registrars Helpline 0870 600 3970 (UK callers) +44 (0) 121 415 7047 (International callers) END Date: 20/11/2006 07:05:09 AM Supplied by www.sharenet.co.za Produced by the JSE SENS Department

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