Result of AGM

Rio Tinto PLC
11 April 2002



                           Results of voting at 2002

                    Annual General Meeting of Rio Tinto plc



The Annual General Meeting of Rio Tinto plc was held on 11th April 2002.



Under the structure which established the dual listed companies merger in 1995,
decisions on certain matters affecting shareholders of Rio Tinto plc and Rio
Tinto Limited in similar ways are taken on a joint basis.



Resolutions 4-6 and 9-17 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 18th April 2002.



The remaining resolutions 1-3 and 7-8 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                                      532,719,800            824,123
2.   To authorise directors to allot shares for cash and to disapply pre-emption 529,487,717          4,056,206
     rights.
3.   To renew the authority for the purchase of Rio Tinto plc's ordinary shares  527,446,837          6,094,864
     by itself and by Rio Tinto Limited.
7.   To approve the grant of options to US and French employees under the Rio    516,952,895         16,085,094
     Tinto Share Savings Plan 1993
8.   To approve the Rio Tinto Share Savings Plan                                 517,128,460         15,917,295





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Investor Relations                                      Investor Relations

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