Exxaro Leeuwpan Mine operating lawfully EXXARO RESOURCES LIMITED Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa (Registration Number: 2000/011076/06) JSE share code: EXX ISIN code: ZAE000084992 ADR code: EXXAY (“Exxaro”) 3 October 2012 NEWS RELEASE EXXARO LEEUWPAN MINE OPERATING LAWFULLY As one of South Africa’s leading diversified resources companies, we at Exxaro pride our reputation as being a responsible operator of mines across the country. It is therefore of serious concern to us that the operations of our Leeuwpan mine in Mpumalanga were misrepresented in a front page article published in Beeld newspaper on Wednesday, 25 September 2012, and headlined “Myn-woesteny”. We therefore take this opportunity to set the record straight and to ensure that our stakeholders are accurately informed regarding the Leeuwpan mine: 1. The above-mentioned article and an accompanying photograph published are misleading as they claim to show the result of mining a wetland. Instead, what the photo shows is the mine’s lawful open cast operations which Exxaro will rehabilitate in terms of the mine’s approved environmental management programme. 2. The Leeuwpan mine complies with mining, water use and environmental legislation. Operations are performed in terms of the required water use licence issued by the Department of Water Affairs (DWA), as well as environmental authorisations in terms of the National Environmental Management Act and an approved Environmental Management Programme in terms of the Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development Act. 3. The false impression was created by the article that operations at Leeuwpan mine were halted by the DWA. This is not true. The Leeuwpan mine remains fully operational. 4. A wetland area - previously degraded by other land use activities - forms part of the mine’s overall mining right area. Exxaro maintains that its current authorisations (as stated above) for Leeuwpan’s mining right area also apply to the wetland. When Exxaro received a query from DWA about activities on the wetland area, Exxaro on its own accord, postponed this activity until the matter is resolved. 5. Exxaro did not receive a directive to stop the mining activity in the wetland. We received a directive to supply information and we complied fully. We also approached the Water Tribunal to appeal this directive. We will continue to engage with the DWA to find a mutually acceptable way forward. Ends Enquiries: Wim de Klerk Finance director Tel: +27 12 307 3173 Email: wim.deklerk@exxaro.com Pretoria 3 October 2012 Sponsor Deutsche Securities (SA) (Proprietary) Limited Date: 03/10/2012 07:05:00 Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited ('JSE'). The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information published on SENS. The JSE, their officers, employees and agents accept no liability for (or in respect of) any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind or nature, howsoever arising, from the use of SENS or the use of, or reliance on, information disseminated through SENS.