Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 5358E

Rio Tinto PLC

07 April 2011

Rio Tinto plc

Transaction in Own Shares

7 April 2011

Rio Tinto plc announces that it transferred to participants in its employee share schemes the following number of its ordinary shares of 10p each, which were previously held as treasury shares.

Ordinary Shares

Date of transfer:	6 April 2011
Number of ordinary shares transferred:	2,112
Highest transfer price per share:	£23.850
Lowest transfer price per share:	£17.084

Following the above Rio Tinto plc holds 15,242,119 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 1,512,624,202.

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