Voting rights and capital update 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") VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL UPDATE Following the Company’s announcements on 11 December 2012 confirming the final result of the 9 for 5 Rights Issue and the successful placing of the rump, the Company’s hereby advises that the total issued share capital of the Company as at 11 December 2012 comprises 568,554,312 ordinary shares of US$1, each with voting rights, and 50,000 sterling deferred shares of £1, each with no voting rights. The legal structure of the Rights Issue required that fractional entitlements were not allotted. As a consequence, the number of shares offered to each shareholder (nil paid), as determined on the relevant record dates, totalled 365,496,943 ordinary shares. Adding this to the 203,057,369 ordinary shares in issue prior to the Rights Issue gives the total above. The new number of ordinary shares in issue (568,554,312) should be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Service Authority’s Disclosure and Transparency Rules. 13 December 2012 Sponsor: J.P. Morgan Equities South Africa (Pty) Limited Date: 13/12/2012 05:23:00 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.