Result of AGM

Rio Tinto PLC
10 May 2000

                          Results of voting at 2000                           
                                                                              
                   Annual General Meeting of Rio Tinto plc                    

The Annual General Meeting of Rio Tinto plc was held on 10th May 2000.
 
Under the structure which established the dual listed companies merger in
1995, decisions on certain matters affecting shareholders of Rio Tinto plc
and Rio Tinto Limited in similar ways are taken on a joint basis.
 
Resolutions 4 and 6-8 of the Rio Tinto plc Annual General Meeting fall into
this category as do the requisitioned resolutions (Resolutions 9 and 10) and
the results of the voting on these resolutions will be announced shortly
after the Rio Tinto Limited Annual General Meeting which will be held in
Australia on 24th May 2000.
 
The remaining resolutions 1-3 and 5 were put to Rio Tinto plc shareholders on
a poll at the Annual General Meeting and the results as certified by the
scrutineers, Central Registration Limited, were as follows:
 
  RESOLUTIONS                                             FOR        AGAINST  
                                                                              
  1.     To authorise directors to allot shares.      534,732,135     226,677 

                                                                              
  2.     To authorise directors to allot shares for   534,679,958     279,454 

         cash and to disapply pre-emption rights.                             
                                                                     
  3.     To renew the authority of the purchase of    526,185,567   8,971,628 
         Rio Tinto plc's ordinary shares by itself 
         and by Rio Tinto Limited.                                            
                                                                              
  5.     To adopt a new Constitution of Rio Tinto     516,831,897   7,543,778 
         Limited.                                                             
      
 
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