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TR1 - Notification of Major Interest In Shares(i)
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")
7 May 2013
TR1 - Notification of Major Interest In Shares(i)
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying
issuer of existing shares to which voting Lonmin plc
:
rights are attached (ii)
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights X
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying
financial instruments which may result in
the acquisition of shares already issued to
which voting rights are attached
An acquisition or disposal of instruments
with similar economic effect to qualifying
financial instruments
An event changing the breakdown of
voting rights
Other (please specify):
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the
Glencore Xstrata plc
notification obligation: (iii)
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different
from 3.): (iv)
5. Date of the transaction and date on
which the threshold is crossed or reached: 2 May 2013
(v)
6. Date on which issuer notified: 3 May 2013
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or
Holding is above 24%
reached: (vi)(vii)
8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares (viii)(ix)
Class/type of Situation previous to the Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
shares triggering transaction
if possible using
the ISIN CODE Number of Number of Number of Number of voting % of voting rights (x)
Shares Voting shares rights
Rights Direct
Indirect Indirect (xii) Direct Indirect
(xi)
Lonmin
ordinary shares 139,513,430 139,513,430 139,513,430 N/A 139,513,430 N/A 24.54
GB0031192486
B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial Expiration Exercise/ Conversion Number of voting % of voting rights
instrument date (xiii) Period (xiv) rights that may be
acquired if the
instrument is
exercised/ converted.
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments (xv)(xvi)
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial Exercise Expiration Exercise/ Number of voting rights % of voting rights
instrument price date (xvii) Conversion instrument refers to (xix)(xx)
period
(xviii)
Nominal Delta
Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights Percentage of voting rights
139,513,430 24.54
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are
effectively held, if applicable: (xxi)
Xstrata Zinc BV is the direct holder of 139,513,430 shares in Lonmin plc.
Xstrata Zinc BV – Xstrata (Scheweiz) AG – Xstrata plc – Finges Investment BV – Glencore Xstrata plc
Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder: N/A
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease
N/A
to hold:
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold
N/A
voting rights:
13. Additional information: Following the merger of Glencore International plc
and Xstrata plc becoming effective on 2 May 2013,
Glencore Xstrata plc became the ultimate beneficial
owner of 139,513,430 ordinary shares in Lonmin plc
and became beneficially interested in 24.54% in
Lonmin plc. Xstrata Zinc BV is the direct holder of
those shares and its percentage interest in voting
rights remains unchanged at 24.54%.
Seema Kamboj
14. Contact name:
020 7201 6053
15. Contact telephone number:
J.P. Morgan Equities South Africa (Pty) Ltd
16. Sponsor
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