Director/PDMR Shareholding

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Rio Tinto PLC

16 February 2012

 



Rio Tinto plc

Director/PDMR Shareholding

16 February 2012

Rio Tinto Performance Share Plan ("PSP")

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

At the time of vesting, participants in these share plans can elect to receive their awards for nil consideration either as shares or as cash from the proceeds of a sale of shares.

Rio Tinto plc announces that, on 15 February 2012, Jacynthe Côté, a person discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMR") of the Company, received her vested award in the form of shares of which sufficient were sold to pay applicable withholding tax and other deductions.

Conditional Award Granted	No of Shares Lapsed	No of Shares Vested	No of Shares         Sold	Sale Price per Share	No of Shares Retained
22,299	14,874	7,425	3,671	£36.8149	3,754

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.

For further information, please contact:

Secretarial Department

Pat Sims

Office: [phone]

Website: www.riotinto.com

 

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