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Lonmin poaches Rio veteran
Mining giant Lonmin has appointed Jonathan Leslie, the former mining director of Rio Tinto who spent 26 years at the group, as a non-executive director on its board. Leslie, 58, also served as chief executive of Rio’s copper and diamonds & gold arms. The barrister left Rio in 2003 to become chief executive of South African coated fine paper producer Sappi. In 2006 he was made an executive chairman at Aim-listed Nikanor.