Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 9284T

Rio Tinto PLC

15 June 2009

 



Rio Tinto plc 

Transaction in Own Shares

15 June 2009

Rio Tinto plc announces that today 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:	15 June 2009
Number of ordinary shares transferred:	16,211
Highest transfer price per share:	£13.29
Lowest transfer price per share:	£12.63

Further to the announcement made on 12 June concerning a transaction in own shares, the Company reports that the correct number of shares transferred out of treasury was 90,000 Rio Tinto plc shares and not 62,890 as previously stated.

Following the above transactions, Rio Tinto plc holds 5,545,890 ordinary shares as

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

held as treasury shares) is 998,972,340.

For further information, please contact:

Investor Relations

Nigel Jones            

Office: [phone]

Mobile: [phone]

Secretarial Department

Gemma Aldridge    

Office: [phone]

Website: www.riotinto.com

 

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