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ArcelorMittal Acquires Brazilian Iron Ore Miner, London Mining Brasil and Acquires Brazilian Port Facility Through Partnership with Adriana Resources Inc.


LUXEMBOURG -- Regulatory News:

ArcelorMittal, the world's leading steel company, today announces that it has agreed to acquire 100% of the issued share capital of London Mining South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere.  Limited ("London Mining Brasil") from Oslo listed London Mining plc ("London Mining") for approximately US$764 million. The transaction also includes the assignment of inter-group loans from London Mining of approximately US$46 million. The total consideration payable to London Mining will amount to approximately US$810 million.

London Mining Brasil is an iron ore miner located in the Iron Quadrangle quadrangle

Rectangular open space completely or partially enclosed by buildings of an academic or civic character. The grounds of a quadrangle are often grassy or landscaped.
 in the state of Minas Gerais Minas Gerais (mē`nəs zhərīs`) [Port.,=various mines], state (1996 pop. 16,660,691), 226,707 sq mi (587,171 sq km), E Brazil. The capital is Belo Horizonte. Minas Gerais continues to produce more than half of Brazil's mineral wealth.  approximately 65 kilometres from the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Its principal activities are focused on the exploration, development and production of iron ore resources in the region.

London Mining Brasil's Central, Eastern and Western Claims contain an estimated 1,059 million tonnes of measured, indicated and inferred iron ore resources. The iron ore from the London Mining Brasil mine has an average Fe grade of 38.0% and contained Fe of 402.6 million tonnes under Brazilian Reporting Standards.

London Mining Brasil is currently in the process of expanding its production of iron ore concentrate and lump ore from 1.4Mtpa to 3.2Mtpa in 2009 due to the operation of a recently commissioned sinter sinter

Mineral deposit with a porous or vesicular texture (having small cavities). Siliceous sinter is a deposit of opaline or amorphous silica that occurs as an incrustation around hot springs and geysers and sometimes forms conical mounds (geyser cones) or terraces.
 feed plant. Subject to further technical analyses, ArcelorMittal will consider investing up to US$700 million to increase production in the medium term to in excess of 10Mtpa.

ArcelorMittal has also reached an agreement (subject to contract) with Canadian based Adriana Resources Inc. ("Adriana") for the development of an iron ore port facility in the State of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, city, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro (rē`ō də zhänā`rō, Port. rē` thĭ zhənĕē`r
, Brazil (the "Port"). The Port is located in the Third District of the City of Mangaratiba and will be constructed on land acquired by Adriana in January 2008. ArcelorMittal intends to use its share of the port's capacity to export iron ore from the London Mining Brasil mine to its steel facilities in the Atlantic basin.

ArcelorMittal's agreement with Adriana includes the following elements:

* Through a series of transactions, ArcelorMittal will acquire 80% of the Port for total consideration of approximately US$40.5 million with Adriana holding the remaining 20%;

* ArcelorMittal has agreed to acquire up to 19.9% of Adriana's common shares in two private placements and will also be granted a seat on Adriana's Board of Directors;

* The parties will each fund their pro rata [Latin, Proportionately.] A phrase that describes a division made according to a certain rate, percentage, or share.

In a Bankruptcy case, when the debtor is insolvent, creditors generally agree to accept a pro rata share of what is owed to them.
 portion of the Port development costs estimated to total approximately US$250 million for the first 10Mtpa of capacity; and

* The parties will share in the capacity of the Port in proportion to their ownership.

Commenting, Aditya Mittal, Chief Financial Officer and Member of ArcelorMittal's Group Management Board said:

"This is another important investment in the dynamic Brazilian market. The acquisition of London Mining Brasil along with our investment in MPP (Massively Parallel Processing or Massively Parallel Processor) A multiprocessing architecture that uses up to thousands of processors. Some might contend that a computer system with 64 or more CPUs is a massively parallel processor.  - Minera[?]ao Piramide Participa[?][?]es Ltda ensures that our iron ore base is further diversified in the face of tighter supply for raw materials. In addition, the planned port facility at Sepetiba Bay in Brazil is the ideal captive solution to deliver access to the export market for ore from the Iron Quadrangle region."

The above transactions are subject to receipt of the necessary approvals.

Notes to Editors

The Port site sits on a 771,818m(2) parcel of land approximately 70 kilometres west of Rio de Janeiro in Sepetiba Bay on the coast of Brazil. The purchase of the adjacent Lot 3 comprising 85,757m(2) is expected to be completed during the third or fourth quarter of 2008. The Port site has direct access to an extensive railway and transportation network. Permitting is underway and the site received Terms of Reference Terms of reference allude to a mutual agreement under which a command, element, or unit exercises authority or undertakes specific missions or tasks relative to another command, element, or unit. Also called TORs.  for environmental requirements on 28 May, 2008. Construction of the port facility is expected to commence as early as Q4 of 2008 and will take an expected 18-24 months to complete. It is expected that the Port will initially operate at a transshipment Transshipment

The passing goods from one ocean vessel to another.
 capacity of 5 to 10Mtpa.

RBC Capital Markets RBC Capital Markets is the corporate and investment banking division of Royal Bank of Canada ("RBC"). Broker dealers
Depending on the jurisdiction, the division uses different broker dealer subsidiaries of RBC:
  • Canada: RBC Dominion Securities Inc
 acted as the exclusive financial adviser to ArcelorMittal in respect of both transactions.

About ArcelorMittal

ArcelorMittal is the world's leading steel company, with over 320,000 employees in more than 60 countries.

ArcelorMittal is the leader in all major global steel markets, including automotive, construction, household appliances and packaging, with leading R&D and technology, as well as sizeable captive supplies of raw materials and outstanding distribution networks. With an industrial presence in over 20 countries spanning four continents, the Company covers all of the key steel markets, from emerging to mature.

Through its core values of sustainability, quality and leadership, ArcelorMittal commits to operating in a responsible way with respect to the health, safety and wellbeing of its employees, contractors and the communities in which it operates. It is also committed to the sustainable management of the environment and of finite resources. ArcelorMittal recognises that it has a significant responsibility to tackle the global climate change challenge: it takes a leading role in the industry's efforts to develop breakthrough steelmaking technologies and is actively researching and developing steel-based technologies and solutions that contribute to combat climate change.

In 2007 ArcelorMittal had revenues of USD USD

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 105.2 billion and crude steel production of 116 million tonnes, representing around 10 per cent of world steel output.

ArcelorMittal is listed on the stock exchanges of New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 (MT), Amsterdam (MT), Paris (MTP (1) (Message Transfer Part) See SS7.

(2) (Media Transfer Protocol) A Microsoft enhancement to the picture transfer protocol (PTP), starting with Windows Media Player 10 in Windows XP.
), Brussels (MTBL MTBL Mean Time Between Data Loss ), Luxembourg (MT) and on the Spanish stock exchanges of Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid and Valencia (MTS (1) See Microsoft Transaction Server.

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1. MTS - Message Transport System.
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).

For more information about ArcelorMittal visit: www.arcelormittal.com
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