Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 3175Y

Rio Tinto PLC

28 February 2012

Rio Tinto plc

28 February 2012

Rio Tinto Performance Share Plan ("PSP")

Rio Tinto Management Share Plan ("MSP")

The PSP is a performance based share plan which provides participants with the conditional right, subject to performance conditions being met, to receive ordinary shares of 10p each ("shares").

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.

At the time of vesting, participants in these share plans 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 27 February 2012, the following persons discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMR's") of the Company, received their vested awards in the form of shares of which sufficient were sold to pay applicable withholding tax and other deductions.

PSP

Name

Conditional Award Granted

No of Shares Lapsed

No of Shares Vested

No of Shares

Sold

Sale

Price

per Share

No of Shares Retained

Debra Valentine

13,967

9,316

4,651

2,003

£36.25

2,648

Harry Kenyon-Slaney

7,210

4,810

2,400

1,032

£35.97

1,368

MSP

Name	Conditional Award Granted	Dividend Shares Entitlement	No of Shares Vested	No of Shares Sold	Sale Price per Share	No of Shares Retained
Debra Valentine	19,107	640	19,747	8,437	£36.24	11,310
Debra Valentine	6,053	332	6,385	2,731	£36.25	3,654
Harry Kenyon-Slaney	7,403	248	7,651	3,279	£35.96	4,372