Results of voting - 2006 AGMs

Rio Tinto PLC
04 May 2006



Results of voting at 2006 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
12 April 2006 and 4 May 2006 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 voted on by a joint electoral procedure.


The following ordinary resolutions, which were put to 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 of the joint
polls were as follows:

                                                                                FOR                AGAINST
To elect Tom Albanese                                                   788,995,063                955,272
To elect Sir Rod Eddington                                              787,827,609                982,540
To re-elect Sir David Clementi                                          785,705,651              3,090,273
To re-elect Leigh Clifford                                              788,618,690              1,451,604
To re-elect Andrew Gould                                                748,547,050             23,821,628
To re-elect David Mayhew                                                777,658,148             12,353,168
To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of Rio             779,301,957             10,152,964
Tinto plc and to authorise the Audit committee to determine
the auditors' remuneration
To approve the Remuneration report                                      721,658,511             18,071,272
To receive the Company's financial statements and the reports           750,849,906              2,213,309
of the directors and auditors for the year ended 31 December
2005



The following special resolutions were passed at the Rio Tinto Limited meeting
held on 4 May 2006.  The results of the poll were as follows:

                                                                                FOR                AGAINST
To authorise the purchase of Rio Tinto Limited shares off               151,779,906                248,291
market by tender and on market by Rio Tinto Limited
To renew the authority for the purchase of Rio Tinto Limited's          151,517,209                494,639
shares by itself from Rio Tinto plc


The following special resolution required the separate approval of shareholders
of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited.  It was not put to the Rio Tinto Limited
meeting as a number of shareholders had indicated some concerns about the
subject matter of that resolution.


As the resolution was not approved by the publicly held shares of Rio Tinto
Limited, the holder of Rio Tinto plc's Special Voting Share voted against it, as
required by the terms of Rio Tinto plc's Articles of Association and agreements
governing the operation of the DLC. Accordingly 360,442,512 votes were cast
against the Rio Tinto plc resolution by RTL Shareholder SVC Limited and so the
result of the poll on the Rio Tinto plc resolution was as follows:

                                                                                FOR                AGAINST
To adopt new articles of association of Rio Tinto plc and to            587,216,911            409,542,485
make amendments to the constitution of Rio Tinto Limited



Consequently, the resolution did not pass, as a special resolution requires
approval by a 75 per cent majority.



Prior to the exercise of the votes attached to the Special Voting Share, the
vote on this resolution at the Rio Tinto plc meeting in London was:  FOR
587,216,911; AGAINST 49,099,973.





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