About Lonmin.

Lonmin is one of the world’s largest primary producers of Platinum Group Metals (PGMs). These metals are essential for many industrial applications, especially catalytic converters for internal combustion engine emissions, as well as their widespread use in jewellery.

Our operations, consisting of eleven shafts and inclines, are situated in the Bushveld Complex in South Africa, a country which hosts nearly 80% of global PGM resources. We have been granted a New Order Mining Licence by the South African government for our core operations, which runs to 2037 and is renewable to 2067. We have resources of 175 million troy ounces of PGMs and 43 million ounces of reserves.

We create value for our shareholders through mining, refining and marketing PGMs and have a vertically integrated operational structure – from mine to market. Our Mining operations extract ore from which our Process Division produces refined PGMs for delivery to our customers. Underpinning our operations, our Shared Services functions provide high quality levels of support and infrastructure across the operations.

The PGMs are, for economic
purposes, the six elements
Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium,
Ruthenium, Iridium and Gold –
often referred to by the
shorthand “6E”

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