Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 0179C

Rio Tinto PLC

28 February 2011

 



Rio Tinto plc

Director/PDMR Shareholding

28 February 2011

Rio Tinto Management Share Plan ("MSP")

The MSP is a service based award which provides participants with an award of shares which vests subject to continuous employment.

At the time of vesting, participants in this share plan can elect to receive their awards for nil consideration either as shares or as cash from the proceeds of a sale of shares.

Rio Tinto plc announces that, on 25 February 2011, the following persons discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMR's") of the Company, received their vested awards in the form of shares of which sufficient were sold to pay applicable withholding tax and other deductions.

Name	Conditional Award Granted	Dividend Shares Entitlement	No of Shares Vested	No of Shares         Sold	Sale Price per Share	No of Shares Retained
Jacynthe Côté	5,463	67	5,530	2,705	£42.640	2,825
Debra Valentine	1,820	49	1,869	602	£42.980	1,267

This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of the Financial Services Authority Disclosure and Transparency Rules 3.1.2 to 3.1.4.

For further information, please contact:

Secretarial Department

Pat Sims

Office: [phone]

Website: www.riotinto.com

 

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