Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 6782X

Rio Tinto PLC

17 February 2012

 



Rio Tinto plc

Director/PDMR Shareholding

17 February 2012

Rio Tinto Performance Share Plan ("PSP")

Rio Tinto Management Share Plan ("MSP")

The PSP is a performance based share plan which provides participants with the conditional right, subject to performance conditions being met, to receive ordinary shares of 10p each ("shares"). 

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 can elect to receive their awards for nil consideration either as shares or as cash from the proceeds of a sale of shares.

At the time of vesting, participants in these share plans 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 16 February 2012, Hugo Bague, a person discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMR") of the Company, received his vested awards in the form of shares of which sufficient were sold to pay applicable withholding tax and other deductions.

MSP

Conditional Award Granted	Dividend Shares Entitlement	No of Shares Vested	No of Shares Sold	Sale Price per Share	No of Shares Retained
16,769	562	17,331	9,220	£35.8715	8,111

PSP

Conditional Award Granted	No of Shares Lapsed	No of Shares Vested	No of Shares         Sold	Sale Price per Share	No of Shares Retained
14,128	9,424	4,704	2,503	£35.7677	2,201

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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