Director/PDMR Shareholding

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Rio Tinto PLC

28 May 2013

Rio Tinto plc

28 May 2013

Rio Tinto Bonus Deferral Plan ("BDP")

Rio Tinto Performance Share Plan ("PSP")

This year the Remuneration committee approved a 50% bonus deferral for members of the Executive committee. All bonus deferrals are in Rio Tinto shares valued using the five day average price of shares between 18 and 22 March 2013 which vest on the basis of service at 1 December 2015.

The PSP is a performance share plan which provides participants with the conditional right, subject to performance conditions being met, to receive shares in the Company of 10p each ("ordinary shares").

Rio Tinto plc announces that, on 27 May 2013, the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility (PDMRs) were awarded the following:

	No of shares awarded under BDP	No of shares awarded under PSP
Hugo Bague	6,945	58,589
Preston Chiaro	4,105	46,301
Jacynthe Côté	2,050	54,593
Andrew Harding	7,870	71,095
Jean-Sébastien Jacques	2,113	51,365
Harry Kenyon-Slaney	8,128	66,707
Christopher Lynch	0	104,169
Debra Valentine	7,173	52,549

Awards under the PSP are subject to performance conditions. For 2013 awards only, 50% of the awards granted will be measured against the performance conditions after four years (at the end of 2016) and 50% of the awards granted will be measured against the performance conditions after five years (at the end of 2017).

This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of the Financial Services Authority Disclosure and Transparency Rules 3.1.2 to 3.1.4.

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