Further to the announcements on 10 February 2011 and 4 August 2011 regarding the Rio Tinto Group's capital management programme, Rio Tinto Limited today acquired 656,889 ordinary shares in Rio Tinto plc at an average price of 3941.136 pence per share.
Rio Tinto plc subsequently purchased those shares from Rio Tinto Limited off-market as part of internal capital management for an aggregate consideration of £5, pursuant to the share purchase approval granted by Rio Tinto plc shareholders at the 2011 Rio Tinto plc Annual General Meeting. The shares purchased will be cancelled.
It is immaterial to the shareholders of either Rio Tinto plc or Rio Tinto Limited if Rio Tinto Limited or any of its subsidiaries make a gain or a loss on such transactions as they have no effect on the Rio Tinto Group's overall resources. The underlying purpose of this series of transactions is to facilitate the Rio Tinto Group's ongoing capital management programme and Rio Tinto considers that the transactions will not constrain its ability to maintain its progressive dividend policy and will not affect Rio Tinto Limited's capacity to fully frank its dividends.
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Rio Tinto plc announces that 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:
2 February 2012
Number of ordinary shares transferred:
18,909
Highest transfer price per share:
£12.050
Lowest transfer price per share:
£12.050
Following the above purchase; Rio Tinto plc holds 14,916,953 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 1,425,064,402.
For further information, please contact:
Secretarial Department
Pat Sims
Office: +44 (0) 20 7781 1910
Website: www.riotinto.com
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Further to the announcements on 10 February 2011 and 4 August 2011 regarding the Rio Tinto Group's capital management programme, Rio Tinto Limited today acquired 400,000 ordinary shares in Rio Tinto plc at an average price of 3937.64 pence per share.
Rio Tinto plc subsequently purchased those shares from Rio Tinto Limited off-market as part of internal capital management for an aggregate consideration of £5, pursuant to the share purchase approval granted by Rio Tinto plc shareholders at the 2011 Rio Tinto plc Annual General Meeting. The shares purchased will be cancelled.
It is immaterial to the shareholders of either Rio Tinto plc or Rio Tinto Limited if Rio Tinto Limited or any of its subsidiaries make a gain or a loss on such transactions as they have no effect on the Rio Tinto Group's overall resources. The underlying purpose of this series of transactions is to facilitate the Rio Tinto Group's ongoing capital management programme and Rio Tinto considers that the transactions will not constrain its ability to maintain its progressive dividend policy and will not affect Rio Tinto Limited's capacity to fully frank its dividends.
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Further to the announcements on 10 February 2011 and 4 August 2011 regarding the Rio Tinto Group's capital management programme, Rio Tinto Limited today acquired 500,000 ordinary shares in Rio Tinto plc at an average price of 3972.4415 pence per share.
Rio Tinto plc subsequently purchased those shares from Rio Tinto Limited off-market as part of internal capital management for an aggregate consideration of £5, pursuant to the share purchase approval granted by Rio Tinto plc shareholders at the 2011 Rio Tinto plc Annual General Meeting. The shares purchased will be cancelled.
It is immaterial to the shareholders of either Rio Tinto plc or Rio Tinto Limited if Rio Tinto Limited or any of its subsidiaries make a gain or a loss on such transactions as they have no effect on the Rio Tinto Group's overall resources. The underlying purpose of this series of transactions is to facilitate the Rio Tinto Group's ongoing capital management programme and Rio Tinto considers that the transactions will not constrain its ability to maintain its progressive dividend policy and will not affect Rio Tinto Limited's capacity to fully frank its dividends.
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