Company KAZAKHMYS PLC (United Kingdom) informed about renewal of extraction on "Southern" mine

/KASE, December 19, 07/ - Company KAZAKHMYS PLC (London), common shares of which are traded in Kazakhstan stock exchange's (KASE) category "A" official list, had provided KASE with the press-release dated December 14, 2007 in which the following is informed: Quotation begin On October 8 Kazakhmys PLC announced that on Southern mine of Zhezkazgantsvetmet the flood happened, which had caused the temporary stoppage of transportation of extracted ore from working horizons. After successful realization of plan for recovery, the influence of flood on production operations in main shaft currently is ended, production in mine is growing, its full production power, overcoming the expectations, have to recover till the end of this year. Monthly extraction of ore on Southern mine makes about 525.000 tons with average contain of copper in ore at 0.7%. For detailed information please contact to: John Smelt, Head of Corporate connections department Tel:+44 20 7901 7882 Mob: +44 787 964 2675 Sergey Stefantsov, Investor relations manager Tel:+44 20 7901 7814 Kazakhmys PLC David Saymonson and Tom Randell (in English language) Leonid Fink and Anastasia Ivanova (In Russian language) Тел:+44 20 7653 6620 Merlyn Quotation end [2007-12-19]