Result of AGM Meetings

Rio Tinto PLC
24 May 2000


              Results of voting at 2000 Annual General Meetings               
                                                                              
                    of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited                    

 
The Annual General Meetings of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited were held
on 10 May and 24 May 2000 respectively.
 
Under Rio Tinto's dual listed companies structure established in 1995,
decisions on significant matters affecting shareholders of Rio Tinto plc and
Rio Tinto Limited in similar ways are taken through a joint electoral
procedure.
 
The following resolutions, which were put to both Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto
Limited shareholders on a poll at the respective Annual General Meetings,
were subject to the joint electoral procedure and the aggregate results of
the joint polls as certified by the scrutineers, Central Registration Limited
and Computershare Registry Services Pty Limited were as follows:
 
                                                                              
                                                        For         Against   
 
  To elect Mr D L Mayhew as a director               624,486,545     4,310,196
  
  To re-elect directors:     Mr C R H Bull           583,208,531    17,117,621
                             Mr L A Davis            619,401,111     7,528,324
                             Mr G M Pemberton        622,245,237     4,593,131
                             The Hon. R G H Seitz    621,894,474     4,932,518
  
  To re-appoint the auditors of Rio Tinto plc        629,655,946     9,005,852
  
  To receive the Company's accounts and the          639,585,507       647,976
  reports of the directors and auditors for the                               
  year ended 31 December 1999                                                 
                                                                              
  Requisitioned resolutions:-                                                 
  - corporate governance                             113,858,565   446,722,142
  - employment policy and procedure                   95,413,654   454,262,111
 
 
The following special resolution was passed at the Rio Tinto plc meeting held
on 10 May 2000 and also at the Rio Tinto Limited meeting held on 24 May 2000.
The result of the poll at the Rio Tinto plc meeting was as follows:
 
                                                                   
                                                          For        Against  
  Adoption of new Articles of Association of Rio       516,410,767   7,946,777
  Tinto plc                                                                   
 
 
The following special resolution was passed at the Rio Tinto Limited meeting
held on 24 May 2000, having also been passed at the Rio Tinto plc meeting
held on 10 May 2000. The result of the poll at the Rio Tinto Limited meeting
was as follows:
 

                                                                              
                                                           For       Against  
  Adoption of new Constitution of Rio Tinto Limited     105,573,883     86,929
  
  The following special resolution was passed at the                          
  Rio Tinto Limited meeting held on 24 May 2000                               
   
  Awards to Directors under Executive Incentive Plans   104,630,529    868,679
 
 
 
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