Total Voting Rights

Rio Tinto PLC
31 July 2007


Rio Tinto plc
31 July 2007

                                    RIO TINTO PLC
                                   ('THE COMPANY')

                                 TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS


Pursuant to the Transparency Directive's transitional provision 6, Rio Tinto plc
is required to notify the market of the following:

The Company's issued capital, including treasury shares, consists of
1,071,780,781 Ordinary shares of 10p each. Of these, 75,078,671 shares were held
in treasury at the date of this announcement.

Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 996,702,110.

The above figure (996,702,110 Ordinary shares) may be used by shareholders as
the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine if they are
required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the
Company under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.


Further information:

Mr M J Whyte
Assistant Secretary

31 July 2007


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