Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 1831K

Rio Tinto PLC

11 July 2011

Rio Tinto plc

Transaction in Own Shares

11 July 2011

Rio Tinto plc announces that it 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:	8 July 2011
Number of ordinary shares transferred:	1,784
Highest transfer price per share:	£10.979
Lowest transfer price per share:	£10.434

Following the above Rio Tinto plc holds 15,137,134 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 1,489,588,187.

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