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Transaction in Own Shares

Tue, 7th Aug 2012 17:07

RNS Number : 5196J

Rio Tinto PLC

07 August 2012

Rio Tinto plc

Transaction in Own Shares

7 August 2012

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 August 2012
Number of ordinary shares transferred:	2,183
Highest transfer price per share:	£16.530
Lowest transfer price per share:	£16.530

Following the above purchase; Rio Tinto plc holds 14,363,445 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 1,411,012,021.

For further information, please contact:

Secretarial Department

Pat Sims

Office: +44 (0) 20 7781 1910

Website: www.riotinto.com

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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