Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 4441C
Rio Tinto PLC
12 November 2009
 



Rio Tinto plc 

Transaction in Own Shares

12 November 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:
12 November 2009
Number of ordinary shares transferred:
26,231
Highest transfer price per share:
£22.397
Lowest transfer price per share:
£10.979

 


Following the above purchase, Rio Tinto plc holds 5,204,104 ordinary shares as

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

held as treasury shares) is 1,523,799,767.




For further information, please contact:



Secretarial Department

Pat Sims

Office: +44 (0) 20 7781 1910


Website: www.riotinto.com


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