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Rio Tinto Plc

Rio Tinto plc - Results of voting at 2007 annual general meeting

The annual general meeting of Rio Tinto plc was held on 13 April 2007.

Under Rio Tinto's dual listed companies structure established in 1995, decisions on significant matters affecting shareholders of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited in similar ways are taken through a joint electoral procedure.

Resolutions 4 to 12 of the Rio Tinto plc annual general meeting fall into this category, and the results of the voting on these resolutions will be announced shortly after the Rio Tinto Limited annual general meeting which will be held in Australia on 27 April 2007.

The remaining resolutions 1 to 3 were put to Rio Tinto plc shareholders on a poll at the annual general meeting and the results as certified by the scrutineers, Computershare Investor Services PLC, were as follows:

 For Against
 1. To authorise directors to allot shares 593,359,192 17,433,486
 2. To authorise directors to allot shares for cash and to disapply pre-emption rights: 603,103,211 9,742,067
3. To renew the authority for the purchase of Rio Tinto plc's ordinary shares by itself and by Rio Tinto Limited 610,564,376 1,708,724

In accordance with Listing rule 9.6.2R and 9.6.3R two copies of resolutions 1 to 3 have been forwarded to the document viewing facility of the FSA. A Copy of the resolutions may also be obtained from the Notice of meeting.