Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 9525F

Rio Tinto PLC

21 January 2010

 



Rio Tinto plc 

Transaction in Own Shares

21 January 2010

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:	20 January 2010
Number of ordinary shares transferred:	13,242
Highest transfer price per share:	£35.390
Lowest transfer price per share:	£9.087

Following the above purchase, Rio Tinto plc holds 4,799,941 ordinary shares as

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

held as treasury shares) is 1,524,203,930.

For further information, please contact:

Secretarial Department

Pat Sims

Office: [phone]

Website: www.riotinto.com

 

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