Rio Tinto PLC

Transaction in Own Shares • Jun 15, 2017

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Rio Tinto PLC

15 June 2017

15th June 2017

Rio Tinto plc - Transaction in own shares

Rio Tinto plc (the "Company") today announces that on 15th June 2017 it purchased the following number of ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company (the "Ordinary Shares") on the London Stock Exchange from Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch. These shares will be cancelled.

Ordinary Shares

Date of Purchase	15-Jun-17
Number of ordinary shares purchased	119,150
Average price paid (GBp)	3084.1165
Highest price paid	3121.5000
Lowest price paid	3044.5000

These share purchases form part of the Company's existing share buy-back programme which is expected to be completed over the period from 1 March 2017 to 31 December 2017, details of which were announced on 8 February 2017.

In respect of this programme, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch will make trading decisions in relation to the Company's Ordinary Shares repurchased under the buy-back programme independently of, and uninfluenced by, the Company for the period between 1 March 2017 and 28 July 2017.

Any such acquisitions will be effected within certain pre-set parameters, and in accordance with the Company's general authority to repurchase Ordinary Shares, Chapter 12 of the Listing Rules and the provisions of the Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014/EU dealing with buy-back programmes.

Following the cancellation of the Ordinary Shares repurchased, the Company will have 1,379,374,874 Ordinary Shares in issue. To the extent that further Ordinary Shares are repurchased under the programme, these will also be cancelled.

In accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014/EU, a full breakdown of the individual trades is detailed below: 

Transaction details: Rio Tinto plc ordinary shares of 10 pence each

Issuer name: Rio Tinto plc

ISIN: GB0007188757Intermediary name: Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch

Intermediary Code: DEUTGB2L

Timezone: GMT

Currency: GBp

Aggregated Information

Date of purchase: 15th June 2017

Number of ordinary shares purchased: 119,150Volume weighted average price paid per share (p): 3084.1165

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