Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 8939H

Rio Tinto PLC

01 March 2010

 



Rio Tinto plc

Director/PDMR Shareholding

1 March 2010

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 announces that, on 26 February 2010, Jacynthe Côté, a person discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMR") of the Company elected to receive her vested award 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
5,462	5,462	2,702	£33.4352	2,760

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

For further information, please contact:

Secretarial Department

Pat Sims

Office: [phone]

Website: www.riotinto.com

 

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