Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 2521E

Rio Tinto PLC

16 December 2009

 



Rio Tinto plc 

Transaction in Own Shares

16 December 2009

Rio Tinto plc announces that it transferred to participants in its employee share schemes the following number of its ordinary shares of 10p each, which were previously held as treasury shares.

Ordinary Shares

Date of transfer:	16 December 2009
Number of ordinary shares transferred:	5400
Highest transfer price per share:	£26.576
Lowest transfer price per share:	£9.087

Following the above purchase, Rio Tinto plc holds 5,077,049 ordinary shares as

treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares

held as treasury shares) is 1,523,926,822.

 

For further information, please contact:

Secretarial Department

Pat Sims

Office: [phone]

Website: www.riotinto.com

 

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