Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 6824I

Rio Tinto PLC

16 March 2010

 



Rio Tinto plc

Transaction in Own Shares

16 March 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:	16 March 2010
Number of ordinary shares transferred:	34,020
Highest transfer price per share:	£36.570
Lowest transfer price per share:	£10.979

Following the above purchase, Rio Tinto plc holds 3,512,546 ordinary shares as

treasury shares.  The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares

held as treasury shares) is 1,525,491,325.

For further information, please contact:

Secretarial Department

Pat Sims

Office: [phone]

Website: www.riotinto.com

 

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