Director/PDMR Shareholding

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Rio Tinto PLC

27 October 2014

 



Rio Tinto plc

Director/PDMR Shareholding

27 October 2014

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 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 was notified on 24 October 2014 that on 24 October 2014, Jean-Sébastien Jacques, a person discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMR") of the Company elected to receive his vested award, which was granted on 12 September 2011, in the form of shares of which sufficient were sold to pay applicable withholding tax and other deductions.

Conditional Award Granted	No of Shares Vested*	No of Shares Sold	Sale Price per Share	No of Shares Retained
7,500	8,325	4,004	£30.190299	4,321

*The number of shares vested includes additional shares calculated to reflect dividends declared during the vesting period on the original shares granted, in accordance with the MSP plan rules.

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

For further information, please contact:

Vaughn Walton

Assistant Company Secretary

Rio Tinto plc

Tel: [phone]

Website: www.riotinto.com

 

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