NKR Nikanor

RNS Number:9906I
Nikanor Plc
03 December 2007

3 December 2007





NIKANOR TEMPORARY PRODUCTION OUTAGE

An incident at Nikanor's plant in Kolwezi in the Democratic Republic of Congo
has resulted in a temporary production outage.

On Friday 30 November, a boiler used to dissolve sodium silicate in the Kolwezi
Concentrator failed, causing damage to surrounding equipment.  No personnel were
injured.

The causes of the failure are being investigated and as a safety precaution, the
use of a second boiler has been temporarily suspended.  The Company will
continue to supply concentrate from stocks while production is affected.







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

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

JPMorgan Cazenove                                            +44 (0)20 7588 2828
Joe Seifert



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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