Transaction in Own Shares

Rio Tinto PLC
02 October 2007



Rio Tinto plc

Transaction in Own Shares

2 October 2007







Rio Tinto plc announces today that it has transferred to participants in its
employee share schemes the following number of its ordinary shares of 10p each,
which were previously held as treasury shares.



Ordinary Shares



Date of transfer:                                           2 October 2007

Number of ordinary shares transferred:                      3,901

Highest transfer price per share:                           965.4p

Lowest transfer price per share:                            965.4p


Following the above purchase, Rio Tinto plc holds 74,739,829 ordinary shares as
treasury shares.  The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 997,045,761.



For further information, please contact:


Investor Relations

Nigel Jones
Office: [phone]
Mobile: [phone]


Secretarial Department

Matthew Whyte
Office: [phone]

Website: www.riotinto.com



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