Holding(s) in Company

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|TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES(i)                             |
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|1. Identity of the issuer or the        |                                     |
|underlying issuer                       |                                     |
|of existing shares to which voting      |        Kenmare Resources Plc        |
|rights are                              |                                     |
|attached: (ii)                          |                                     |
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|2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):     |
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|An acquisition or disposal of voting rights              |                    |
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|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     |Update to Total Voting Rights         |         X          |
|specify):         |triggered this notification.          |                    |
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|                                |                                             |
|3. Full name of person(s)       |                                             |
|subject to the                  |                          M&G Investment     |
|notification obligation: (iii)  |Funds 3                                      |
|                                |                                             |
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|4. Full name of shareholder(s)  |                                             |
| (if different from 3.):(iv)    |       Nortrust Nominee Ltd A/C MKK01        |
|                                |                                             |
|                                |                                             |
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|5. Date of the transaction and  |                                             |
|date on                         |                                             |
|which the threshold is crossed  |               29 January 2010               |
|or                              |                                             |
|reached: (v)                    |                                             |
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|6. Date on which issuer         |              01 February 2010               |
|notified:                       |                                             |
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|7. Threshold(s) that is/are     |                                             |
|crossed or                      |                     13%                     |
|reached:(vi, vii)               |                                             |
+------------------+-------------+-------+----------------+--------------------+
                   |             |       |                |



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|8. Notified details:                                                                  |
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|A: Voting rights attached to shares (viii, ix)                                        |
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|Class/type  |Situation previous     |Resulting situation after the triggering         |
|of          |to the triggering      |transaction                                      |
|shares      |transaction            |                                                 |
|            +-----------+-----------+------------+-----------+----------------+-------+
|if possible |Number     |Number     |Number      |Number of  |% of  voting    |
|using       |of         |of         |of shares   |voting     |rights (x)      |
|the ISIN    |Shares     |Voting     |            |rights     |                |
|CODE        |           | ights     +------------+-----------+--------+------++-------+
|            |           |           |Direct      |Direct (xi)|Indirect|Direct|Indirect|
|            |           |           |            |           |(xii)   |      |        |
+------------+-----------+-----------+------------+-----------+--------+------+--------+
|IE0004879486|115,895,066|115,895,066|115,895,066 |115,895,066|        |12.79%|        |
+------------+-----------+-----------+------------+-----------+--------+------+--------+
|            |           |           |            |           |        |      |        |
+------------+-----------+-----------+------------+-----------+--------+------+--------+

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|B: Qualifying Financial Instruments                                                   |
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|Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                  |
+--------------+----------+----------------------+-----------------------+-------------+
|Type of       |Expiration|Exercise/             |Number of voting       |% of voting  |
|financial     |date(xiii)|Conversion Period(xiv)|rights that may be     |rights       |
|instrument    |          |                      |acquired if the        |             |
|              |          |                      |instrument is          |             |
|              |          |                      |exercised/ converted.  |             |
+--------------+----------+----------------------+-----------------------+-------------+
|              |          |                      |                       |             |
+--------------+----------+----------------------+-----------------------+-------------+

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|C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial         |
|Instruments (xv, xvi)                                                                 |
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|Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                  |
+-------------+--------+----------+-------------+-----------------------+--------------+
|Type of      |Exercise|Expiration|Exercise/    |Number of voting rights|% of voting   |
|financial    |price   |date      |Conversion   |instrument refers to   |rights (xix,  |
|instrument   |        |(xvii)    |period(xviii)|                       |xx)           |
|             |        |          |             |                       |              |
+-------------+--------+----------+-------------+-----------------------+-------+------+
|             |        |          |             |                       |Nominal|Delta |
|             |        |          |             |                       +-------+------+
|             |        |          |             |                       |       |      |
+-------------+--------+----------+-------------+-----------------------+-------+------+

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|Total (A+B+C)                                                                         |
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|Number of voting rights              |Percentage of voting rights                     |
+-------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|115,895,066                          |12.79%                                          |
+------------+++-------+-++-------+--++---------+++-----------+--------+++----+++------+
             |||       | ||       |  ||         |||           |        |||    |||

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|9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the|
|financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:(xxi)               |
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|Proxy Voting:                                                                 |
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|10. Name of the proxy holder:                  |             N/A              |
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|11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will  |                              |
|cease                                          |             N/A              |
|to hold:                                       |                              |
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|12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to   |                              |
|hold                                           |             N/A              |
|voting rights:                                 |                              |
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|                             |M&G Investments Funds 3 is an Open Ended        |
|13. Additional information:  |Investment Company (OEIC) and is not a          |
|                             |Prudential group company and must be separately |
|                             |disclosed.                                      |
|                             |This OEIC Fund is managed by M&G Investment     |
|                             |Management Limited (a wholly owned subsidiary of|
|                             |Prudential plc) and will have been previously   |
|                             |attributed to Prudential plc solely on the basis|
|                             |that M&G Investment Management Ltd has direct   |
|                             |fund management control over the shares         |
|                             |identified in this notification.                |
|                             |Therefore the 12.79% holding being disclosed in |
|                             |this notification is encompassed in the 18.28%  |
|                             |already disclosed under The Prudential plc group|
|                             |of companies on 01/02/2010 and is NOT in        |
|                             |addition to it.                                 |
|                             |                                                |
|                             |                                                |
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|14. Contact name:            |Dipesh Varsani / Mark Thomas                    |
|                             |M&G Investment Management Limited               |
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|15. Contact telephone number:|020 7548 3261 / 020 7548 3266                   |
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