LON - Lonmin Plc - Notification of PDMRs` shareholdings pursuant to

LON - Lonmin Plc - Notification of PDMRs` shareholdings pursuant to             
                   Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.4                       
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 DECEMBER 2008                                                                
Notification of PDMRs` shareholdings pursuant to Disclosure and                 
Transparency Rule 3.1.4                                                         
The Company received a notification today, 17 December 2008, from the           
Trustee of the Lonmin Employee Benefit Trust that matched awards made on 15     
December 2005 under the Deferred Annual Bonus Plan vested to the extent of      
50%, being the half of the matched award subject to a performance target        
based on the growth in audited EBIT profits between the years ended             
30 September 2005 and 2008.                                                     
This resulted in the partial release of the matched award and subsequent        
sale of some of shares by Ian Farmer, a director and the chief executive of     
the Company, and by Albert Jamieson, a PDMR, as detailed below, all of          
which occurred today.                                                           
The sales by Mr Farmer and Mr Jamieson were to realise sufficient cash          
proceeds to satisfy their liability to income tax and (in the case of Ian       
Farmer) national insurance on the vesting of the award and the balance of       
their shares have been retained.                                                
Name of PDMR   No. of shares   No. of        No. of       No. of        Sale    
under original  shares        shares sold  shares        price     

             matched award   vested                    retained                 
Ian Farmer     2,273           1,136          467         669           GBP7.15 
Albert         860             430           173          257           GBP7.15 
Jamieson                                                                        
In addition, the trustee has released 1,341 shares to Mr Farmer and 516         
shares to Mr Jamieson which were acquired by them in December 2005 by way       
of investment of deferred bonus monies and which have been held since that      
time as part of their beneficial holdings.                                      
The Company was today also notified of the same information by Mr Farmer        
and Mr Jamieson in discharge of their obligations under DTR 3.1.2 R.            
Following this notification, Mr Farmer`s total shareholding in the Company      
is 36,490.                                                                      
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