Result of AGM

Rio Tinto PLC
18 April 2002



               Results of voting at 2002 Annual General Meetings

                     of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited


The Annual General Meetings of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited were held on
11 April and 18 April 2002 respectively.

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.

The following resolutions, which were put to both Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto
Limited shareholders on a poll at the respective Annual General Meetings, were
subject to the joint electoral procedure and the aggregate results of the joint
polls as certified by the scrutineers, Computershare Investor Services, were as
follows:

                                                                                        For          Against
To increase authorised share capital of Rio Tinto plc and to create a DLC       675,083,823        4,125,057
Dividend share in Rio Tinto Limited

To increase the limit of director's fees and amend conversion rate              676,569,250        1,217,997


To elect directors:      Mr Guy Elliott                                         676,477,084        2,300,478
                         Mr Paul Skinner                                        677,023,619        1,901,884
To re-elect directors:   Mr Leigh Clifford                                      676,621,696        2,310,087
                         Mr Richard Giordano                                    638,938,962       10,808,793
                         Mr Oscar Groeneveld                                    677,180,415        1,729,774
                         Mr John Morschel                                       668,283,644       10,342,609


To re-appoint the auditors of Rio Tinto plc                                     670,731,495        8,313,304

To approve the remuneration policy                                              628,985,854        8,334,658

To receive the Company's financial statements and the reports of the            672,884,157        3,528,459
directors and auditors for the year ended 31 December 2001


The following special resolution was passed at the Rio Tinto plc meeting and at
the Rio Tinto Limited meeting.  The result of the poll at the Rio Tinto plc
meeting was as follows:


                                                                                          For        Against
Adoption of new Articles of Association of Rio Tinto plc and amendments to        532,791,700        597,032
Constitution of Rio Tinto Limited


The following resolution was passed at the Rio Tinto Limited meeting.

                                                                                          For        Against
Awards to Directors under Executive Incentive and Share Savings Plans             139,522,032      5,363,758





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