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Elementis PLC 22 February 2005 SCHEDULE 10 NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES 1) NAME OF COMPANY ELEMENTIS PLC 2) NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LIMITED 3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of holding of the Shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18 4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of shares held by each of them. SEE BELOW 5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired. 1,356,685 6) Percentage of issued Class (any treasury shares held by company should not be taken into account when calculating percentage) 0.31% 7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed 8) Percentage of issued Class (any treasury shares held by company should not be taken into account when calculating percentage) 9) Class of security ORDINARY SHARES 10) Date of transaction NOT KNOWN 11) Date company informed 21.2.2005 12) Total holding following this notification 48,473,928 13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification (any treasury shares held by company should not be taken into account when calculating percentage) 11.22% 14) Any additional information 15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries PENNY WATSON 01784 22 7023 16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for making this notification Date of Notification 22.2.05 LETTER TO: ELEMENTIS PLC 21 February 2005 5p ORDINARY SHARES ('SHARES') We write to advise you that we, Schroder Investment Management Limited, have an interest in 43,720,842 shares which are held in portfolios managed by us on a discretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements. Included in this figure are: - (i) 1,850,926 shares registered or to be registered in the name of our wholly-owned subsidiary nominee company, Schroder Nominees Limited (Schroder Nominees). (ii) 17,483,512 shares held in (a) unit trust(s) operated and managed by an affiliated company. Schroder Unit Trusts Limited (SUTL), and registered or to be registered in the name of Chase Nominee and, (iii) 24,386,404 shares neither registered nor to be registered in the name of Schroder Nominees. The registration details are shown on the enclosed schedule. A subsidiary, Schroder Investment Management North America Ltd (SIMNA Ltd), is managing (a) portfolio(s) on a similar basis holding a further 4,753,086 shares. These shares are registered or to be registered in the name of Chase Nominees Limited. We believe that we, our subsidiary and affiliated company are therefore interested in an overall aggregate of 48,473,928 shares, representing some 11.220% of the total number of shares in issue, namely 432,034,561. This notification is made to you:- (a) in respect of our interest as investment managers, (b) on behalf of SIMNA Ltd and SUTL in relation to the interests they are treated as having respectively under the Companies Act 1985 (the Act), and (c) on behalf of Schroders plc., our holding company, which is treated as having an interest in all of the above shares under the Act by virtue of its ownership of SIMNA Ltd. SUTL and ourselves. Alison Dunn Assistant Manager - Compliance (Schroders) 5P ORDINARY SHARES SCHEDULE REGISTRATION AMOUNT British Coal Staff Superannuation a/c:P 8,724,778 Chase Nominees Limited 4,350,926 Mineowrkers' Pension Scheme a/c:R 9,500,000 Nortrust Nominees Limited 1,810,700 24,386,404 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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