Integration of Operations

RNS Number:3336M
Nikanor Plc
23 January 2008

23 January 2008


                                  Nikanor Plc


KATANGA AND NIKANOR OPERATIONS INTEGRATED


Katanga Mining has made the following statement with respect to the integration
of its operations with Nikanor.


LONDON, UK January 22, 2008 - Katanga Mining Limited (TSX - KAT) ("Katanga")
announces that, with effect from January 21, Katanga has assumed complete
management and financial control of the merged company.


Extensive planning has been under way since the merger was announced in
November. Integration teams from both Katanga and Nikanor have been working to
ensure the operations and management of the merged company are unified
successfully.


Katanga, through its Joint Ventures Kamoto Copper Company ("KCC") and DRC Copper
and Cobalt Project ("DCP"), now employs more than 3,000 people in the Democratic
Republic of Congo, with offices in Lubumbashi and Kolwezi. Katanga also has
offices in Johannesburg and London.


DCP is taking steps to make safety and performance-related improvements to the
Kolwezi Concentrator, which currently produces a copper-cobalt concentrate for
sale to the market. This work will necessitate a shutdown period, expected to be
less than a month. There are sufficient product stocks to continue shipments
during that period. In the meantime, production continues to increase in the
Kamoto complex.


At the same time, work will also be carried out to upgrade a section of road to
enable industrial traffic to bypass Kolwezi, thereby improving conditions in the
town.


For further information, please contact:

Nikanor PLC                                                  +44 (0)20 7529 5800
Jonathan Leslie, Executive Chairman
Peter Sydney-Smith, Finance Director
Richard Boorman, Head of Investor Relations


JPMorgan Cazenove                                            +44 (0)20 7588 2828
Ian Hannam
Adam Brett
Joe Seifert


Citigate Dewe Rogerson                                       +44 (0)20 7638 9571
Kate Delahunty
George Cazenove



Notes to Editors

Nikanor is a mining group which owns assets in the heart of the African
copperbelt in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The group's key mine is KOV,
containing one of the world's largest high quality copper and cobalt ore bodies.
Nikanor is rehabilitating this proven and well documented brownfield site and
building a major state of the art refining plant to produce 250,000 tonnes per
year of LME A-grade copper cathode and 27,500 tonnes per year of cobalt
products.



Nikanor was admitted to the London Stock Exchange (AIM) on 17 July 2006.




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