Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 4585G

Rio Tinto PLC

22 October 2008

Rio Tinto plc

22 October 2008

SHAREHOLDINGS OF DIRECTORS AND PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY

On Tuesday, 21 October 2008 and Wednesday, 22 October 2008, Rio Tinto plc was notified that the following Directors and/or persons discharging managerial responsibility ('PDMRs') had completed transactions under the Rio Tinto America Savings Plan, to acquire or dispose of units in the Rio Tinto plc Stock Fund. Each unit represents one ADR and each ADR represents four Ordinary shares of 10p each in Rio Tinto plc. These are non-discretionary transactions.

Director/PDMR	No. of units acquired	Price per unit (US$)

Date of transaction: 6 October 2008:
Mr T. Albanese Mr P. Chiaro Mr B.K. Clayton	60.335 8.129 25.46	207.267 207.267 207.267
Date of transaction: 8 October 2008:
Mr P. Chiaro	0.543	184.275

Following this notification the total holdings of ordinary shares of 10p (including Stock Fund units, ADRs and ordinary shares) and the total percentage holdings for these PDMRs are as follows:

Mr Albanese - 57,078.012 (0.005719%)

Mr Chiaro - 62,225.408 (0.006234%)

Mr Clayton - 8,502.136 (0.000852%)

Messrs Albanese, Chiaro and Clayton also have an interest in 1703 shares as a potential beneficiary of the Rio Tinto Employee Share Ownership Trust.