Director/PDMR Shareholding

Rio Tinto PLC
07 May 2008



Rio Tinto plc

07 May 2008



                     Rio Tinto Share Ownership Plan ('SOP')


The SOP is an Inland Revenue approved Share Incentive Plan (SIP), operated
through Capita AESOP Trustees Limited, under which employees are awarded Free
shares once per year.  The Free shares are ordinary shares in the Company of
10p each ('ordinary shares').

On 07 May 2008, Rio Tinto plc was notified that, on 30 April 2008 in London, the
following persons discharging managerial responsibility ('PDMRs') of the Company
were each awarded ordinary shares at a price of £59.15 and were allocated the
same number of matching shares, free of charge:


                             No. of shares        Total ordinary      Percentage of issued share
                               acquired            shares held                 capital                             
                                                 
G.R. Elliott                      50                  60,071                   0.006019


K Johnson                         50                  25,266                   0.002532




The above PDMRs also have an interest in 885 shares as potential beneficiaries
of the Rio Tinto Employee Share Ownership Trust.

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




Enquiries:              Kerrene Nicholas
                        Secretarial Assistant
                        Rio Tinto plc
                        Tel: [phone]



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