Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 0388M

Rio Tinto PLC

21 January 2009

Rio Tinto plc

21 January 2009

SHAREHOLDINGS OF DIRECTORS AND PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY

On Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 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: 16 January 2009:
Mr B.K. Clayton Mr P. Chiaro	39.148 7.095	89.405 89.405

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 Clayton - 8,658.584 (0.000867%)

Mr Chiaro - 64,877.160 (0.006499%)

Messrs Clayton and Chiaro also have an interest in 4965 shares as a potential beneficiary of the Rio Tinto Employee Share Ownership Trust.