AGM voting results

Rio Tinto PLC
07 April 2004


Rio Tinto plc
Results of voting at 2004 annual general meeting


The annual general meeting of Rio Tinto plc was held on 7 April 2004.

Under Rio Tinto's dual listed companies structure established in 1995, decisions
on significant matters affecting shareholders of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto
Limited in similar ways are taken through a joint electoral procedure.

Resolutions 4-12 of the Rio Tinto plc annual general meeting fall into this
category, and the results of the voting on these resolutions will be announced
shortly after the Rio Tinto Limited annual general meeting which will be held in
Australia on 22 April 2004.

The remaining resolutions 1-3 were put to Rio Tinto plc shareholders on a poll
at the annual general meeting and the results as certified by the scrutineers,
Computershare Investor Services PLC, were as follows:


RESOLUTIONS                                                 FOR         AGAINST
1.  To authorise directors to allot shares          602,005,204       2,493,762
2.  To authorise directors to allot shares 
    for cash and to disapply pre-emption 
    rights.                                         591,659,579      12,845,097
3.  To renew the authority for the purchase 
    of Rio Tinto plc's                              599,011,275         735,083
    ordinary shares by itself and by Rio 
    Tinto Limited.


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