Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 4431H

Rio Tinto PLC

19 February 2010

Rio Tinto plc

Transaction in Own Shares

19 February 2010

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:	18 February 2010
Number of ordinary shares transferred:	33,818
Highest transfer price per share:	£34.410
Lowest transfer price per share:	£10.979

Following the above purchase, Rio Tinto plc holds 4,334,785 ordinary shares as treasury shares.
The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 1,524,669,086.

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