Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 8198M

Rio Tinto PLC

22 August 2011

 



Rio Tinto plc

Transaction in Own Shares

22 August 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:	19 August 2011
Number of ordinary shares transferred:	505
Highest transfer price per share:	£27.810
Lowest transfer price per share:	£21.347

Following the above Rio Tinto plc holds 15,134,414 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 1,475,259,907.     

For further information, please contact:

Secretarial Department

Pat Sims

Office: [phone]

Website: www.riotinto.com

 

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