Director/PDMR Shareholding

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Rio Tinto PLC

28 August 2013

 



Rio Tinto plc

Director/PDMR Shareholding

28 August 2013

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 it was notified on 27 August 2013 that on 27 August 2013, Jean-Sébastien Jacques, a person discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMR") of the Company elected to receive his vested award, which was granted on 12 September 2011, 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
7,500	7908	3803	£30.051498	4105

*The number of shares vested includes additional shares calculated to reflect dividends declared during the vesting period on the original shares granted, in accordance with the MSP plan rules.

This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of the Financial Conduct 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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