RIO TINTO LIMITED — Director's Dealing 2018

Oct 24, 2018

Notice to ASX/LSE

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Shareholdings of directors and persons discharging managerial responsibility (PDMR) / Key Management Personnel (KMP)

24 October 2018

Rio Tinto plc notifies the London Stock Exchange (LSE) of PDMR/KMP interests in securities of Rio Tinto plc, in compliance with the EU Market Abuse Regulation. As part of its dual listed company structure, Rio Tinto voluntarily notifies the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) of material dealings in Rio Tinto plc shares by PDMR/KMP and both the ASX and the LSE of material dealings by PDMR/KMP in Rio Tinto Limited securities.

Global Employee Share Plan (GESP)

Under the GESP employees are able to purchase, on a quarterly basis, Rio Tinto plc ordinary shares of 10p each (‘shares’), Rio Tinto plc ADRs or Rio Tinto Limited ordinary shares (‘shares’). Shares are purchased out of monthly deductions from salary and participants are allocated an equivalent number of shares or ADRs free of charge (‘matching shares’ and ‘matching ADRs’) conditional upon satisfying the terms of the GESP. The matching shares or matching ADRs are subject to a three year holding period, and vest after this period. At the time of vesting, participants can elect to receive their awards for nil consideration either as shares or as cash from the proceeds of a sale of shares.

On 19 October 2018, the following PDMR/KMPs elected to receive the vested matching shares under the GESP in the form of shares, of which sufficient were sold on 23 October 2018 to pay applicable withholding tax and other deductions.

Security	Name of	No: of	No: of	No: of	Price per Share	No: of
	PDMR/KMP	Matching	Matching	Shares	Sold	Shares
		Shares	Shares	Sold		Retained
		Granted	*Vested **
Rio Tinto	Barrios, Alfredo	25.5095	29.0192	12.8753	36.3212 GBP	16.1439
plc shares
Rio Tinto	Farrell, Joanne	26.2239	29.2373	13.7417	78.36894 AUD	15.4956
Limited
shares
Rio Tinto	Jacques,	15.158	17.2431	7.2421	36.3212 GBP	10.001
plc shares	Jean-Sébastien
Rio Tinto	McIntosh,	26.2239	29.2373	13.7417	78.36894 AUD	15.4956
Limited	Stephen
shares
Rio Tinto	Trott, Simon	26.2239	29.2373	N/A	N/A	29.2373
Limited
shares

*The number of shares vested includes additional shares calculated to reflect dividends declared during the vesting period on the original shares granted, in accordance with the GESP plan rules.

FCA notifications in accordance with the EU Market Abuse Regulation have been issued to the London Stock Exchange contemporaneously with this release.

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LEI: 213800YOEO5OQ72G2R82

Classification: 2.2. Inside information disclosed under article 19 of the Market Abuse Regulation

Steve Allen Group Company Secretary

Tim Paine

Joint Company Secretary

Rio Tinto plc 6 St James’s Square London SW1Y 4AD United Kingdom

Rio Tinto Limited Level 7, 360 Collins Street Melbourne 3000 Australia

T +44 20 7781 2058 Registered in England No. 719885

T +61 3 9283 3333 Registered in Australia ABN 96 004 458 404

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