Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 9254N

Rio Tinto PLC

08 September 2011

Rio Tinto plc

Transaction in Own Shares

8 September 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:	7 September 2011
Number of ordinary shares transferred:	3,319
Highest transfer price per share:	£29.000
Lowest transfer price per share:	£21.347

Following the above Rio Tinto plc holds 15,124,427 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 1,468,837,539.

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