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Macquarie Group Limited09 April 2008 DEALINGS BY CONNECTED EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADERS WITHOUT RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY STATUS, OR WITH RI STATUS BUT NOT DEALING IN A CLIENT-SERVING CAPACITY (Rule 38.5(b) of the Takeover Code) 1. KEY INFORMATION Name of exempt principal trader Macquarie Capital Securities (Australia) Limited Company dealt in BHP Billiton Limited Class of relevant security to which the Ordinary shares ISIN: AU000000BHP4dealings being disclosed relate (Note 1) Date of dealing 08 April 2008 2. INTERESTS, SHORT POSITIONS AND RIGHTS TO SUBSCRIBE (a) Interests and short positions (following dealing) in the class ofrelevant security dealt in (Note 2) Long Short Number Number (%) (%) (1) Relevant securities (2) Derivatives (other than options) (3) Options and agreements to purchase/sell Total 0 0 0 0 (b) Interests and short positions in relevant securities of the company,other than the class dealt in (Note 2) Class of relevant security: Long Short Number Number (%) (%) (1) Relevant securities (2) Derivatives (other than options) (3) Options and agreements to purchase/sell Total (c) Rights to subscribe (Note 2) Class of relevant security: Details Ordinary shares ISIN: AU000000BHP4 3. DEALINGS (Note 3) (a) Purchases and sales Purchase/sale Number of securities Price per unit (Note 4) See Annexure A (b) Derivatives transactions (other than options) Product name, Long/short (Note 5) Number of securities (Note 6) Price per unit (Note 4)e.g. CFD (c) Options transactions in respect of existing securities (i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying Product name, Writing, selling, Number of securities Exercise Type, e.g. Expiry Option money purchasing, to which the option American,e.g. call option varying etc. relates (Note 6) price European etc. date paid/received per unit (Note 4) (ii) Exercising Product name, e.g. call option Number of securities Exercise price per unit (Note 4) (d) Other dealings (including new securities) (Note 3) Nature of transaction (Note 7) Details Price per unit (if applicable) (Note 4) 4. OTHER INFORMATION Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives Full details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding between the person disclosing and any other person relatingto the voting rights of any relevant securities under any option referred to on this form or relating to the votingrights or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which any derivative referred to on this form isreferenced. If none, this should be stated. Is a Supplemental Form 38.5(b) attached? (Note 8) YES/NO Date of disclosure 09 April 2008 Contact name Johanna Uy Telephone number +44 (0) 2030374339 Name of offeree/offeror with which connected Rio Tinto Plc Nature of connection (Note 9) Connected principal trader Notes The Notes on Form 38.5(b) can be viewed on the Takeover Panel's website atwww.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk Annexure A: BHP Purchase 9760 40.8BHP Purchase 270 40.8BHP Purchase 25000 40.8BHP Purchase 200 40.8BHP Purchase 286 40.8BHP Purchase 1115 40.8BHP Purchase 3939 40.8BHP Purchase 1000 40.8BHP Purchase 60 40.8BHP Purchase 220 40.8BHP Purchase 20 40.8BHP Purchase 50 40.8BHP Purchase 1150 40.8BHP Purchase 500 40.8BHP Purchase 260 40.8BHP Purchase 26 40.8BHP Purchase 280 40.8BHP Purchase 350 40.8BHP Purchase 1699 40.8BHP Purchase 14 40.8BHP Purchase 35 40.8BHP Purchase 165 40.8BHP Purchase 26 40.8BHP Purchase 150 40.8BHP Purchase 300 40.8BHP Purchase 512 40.8BHP Purchase 100 40.8BHP Purchase 1000 40.8BHP Purchase 6 40.8BHP Purchase 100 40.8BHP Purchase 200 40.8BHP Purchase 152 40.8BHP Purchase 200 40.8BHP Purchase 1000 40.8BHP Purchase 100 40.8BHP Purchase 1000 40.8BHP Purchase 500 40.8BHP Purchase 10000 40.8BHP Purchase 1810 40.8BHP Purchase 10000 40.8BHP Purchase 370 40.8BHP Purchase 40 40.8BHP Purchase 1000 40.8BHP Purchase 56 40.8BHP Purchase 1000 40.8BHP Purchase 100 40.8BHP Purchase 400 40.8BHP Purchase 250 40.8BHP Purchase 2000 40.8BHP Purchase 225 40.8BHP Purchase 50 40.8BHP Purchase 687 40.8BHP Purchase 1000 40.8BHP Purchase 400 40.8BHP Purchase 25000 40.8BHP Purchase 230 40.8BHP Purchase 285 40.8BHP Purchase 100 40.8BHP Purchase 25 40.8BHP Purchase 150 40.8BHP Purchase 2000 40.8BHP Purchase 2580 40.8BHP Purchase 250 40.8BHP Purchase 5000 40.8BHP Purchase 12000 40.8BHP Purchase 200 40.8BHP Purchase 3500 40.8BHP Purchase 800 40.8BHP Purchase 75 40.8BHP Purchase 10000 40.8BHP Purchase 60 40.8BHP Purchase 500 40.8BHP Purchase 389 40.8BHP Purchase 3885 40.8BHP Purchase 553 40.8BHP Purchase 16008 40.8BHP Purchase 2448 40.8BHP Purchase 8567 40.83BHP Purchase 1433 40.83BHP Purchase 4429 40.83BHP Purchase 43 40.83BHP Purchase 84 40.83BHP Purchase 200 40.83BHP Purchase 5244 40.83BHP Purchase 499 40.83BHP Purchase 2361 40.84BHP Purchase 7639 40.85BHP Purchase 10000 40.85BHP Purchase 6612 40.85BHP Purchase 10000 40.85BHP Purchase 3388 40.85BHP Purchase 6612 40.85BHP Purchase 2889 40.85BHP Purchase 868 40.85BHP Purchase 300 40.85BHP Purchase 300 40.85BHP Purchase 800 40.85BHP Purchase 300 40.85BHP Purchase 100 40.85BHP Purchase 2900 40.85BHP Purchase 4 40.85BHP Purchase 1000 40.85BHP Purchase 1001 40.85BHP Purchase 2427 40.85BHP Purchase 84 40.93BHP Purchase 110 40.93BHP Purchase 790 40.93BHP Purchase 1000 40.93BHP Purchase 7291 40.93BHP Purchase 6814 41.22BHP Purchase 500 41.22BHP Purchase 2686 41.22BHP Purchase 507 41.23BHP Purchase 203 41.23BHP Purchase 48 41.23BHP Purchase 500 41.23BHP Purchase 1 41.23BHP Purchase 1555 41.23BHP Purchase 450 41.23BHP Purchase 589 41.26BHP Purchase 1000 41.26BHP Purchase 2900 41.26BHP Purchase 343 41.26BHP Purchase 6878 41.26BHP Purchase 500 41.23BHP Purchase 2896 41.23BHP Purchase 44 41.23BHP Purchase 752 41.23BHP Purchase 2896 41.23BHP Purchase 432 41.23BHP Purchase 2400 41.23BHP Purchase 80 41.23BHP Purchase 8797 41.23BHP Purchase 500 41.23BHP Purchase 140 41.23BHP Purchase 462 41.23BHP Purchase 5063 41.23BHP Purchase 201 41.14BHP Purchase 616 41.14BHP Purchase 500 41.14BHP Purchase 500 41.14BHP Purchase 12 41.14BHP Purchase 12 41.14BHP Purchase 400 41.14BHP Purchase 500 41.14BHP Purchase 4455 41.14BHP Purchase 1000 41.14BHP Purchase 1804 41.14BHP Purchase 5 41.16BHP Purchase 5000 41.16BHP Purchase 92 41.16BHP Purchase 134 41.16BHP Purchase 3000 41.16BHP Purchase 172 41.16BHP Purchase 420 41.16BHP Purchase 2700 41.16BHP Purchase 7098 41.16BHP Purchase 1000 41.16BHP Purchase 379 41.16BHP Purchase 370 41.16BHP Purchase 9630 41.16BHP Purchase 10000 41.16BHP Purchase 9617 41.16BHP Purchase 383 41.16BHP Purchase 500 41.16BHP Purchase 12 41.16BHP Purchase 5000 41.16BHP Purchase 140 41.16BHP Purchase 2000 41.16BHP Purchase 1000 41.16BHP Purchase 1348 41.16BHP Purchase 162 41.16BHP Purchase 500 41.16BHP Purchase 200 41.16BHP Purchase 33 41.16BHP Purchase 2151 41.16BHP Purchase 590 41.16BHP Purchase 5000 41.16BHP Purchase 2000 41.16BHP Purchase 100 41.18BHP Purchase 100 41.18BHP Purchase 3200 41.18BHP Purchase 300 41.18BHP Purchase 13868 41.2BHP Purchase 1130 41.2BHP Purchase 250 41.2BHP Purchase 300 41.2BHP Purchase 46 41.2BHP Purchase 70 41.2BHP Purchase 1657 41.2BHP Purchase 750 41.2BHP Purchase 125 41.2BHP Purchase 205 41.2BHP Purchase 100 41.2BHP Purchase 500 41.2BHP Purchase 200 41.2BHP Purchase 512 41.2BHP Purchase 25000 41.2BHP Purchase 250 41.2BHP Purchase 500 41.2BHP Purchase 1300 41.2BHP Purchase 700 41.2BHP Purchase 500 41.2BHP Purchase 3532 41.2BHP Purchase 1411 41.2BHP Purchase 134 41.2BHP Purchase 226 41.2BHP Purchase 100 41.2BHP Purchase 6165 41.2BHP Purchase 2414 41.2BHP Purchase 3719 41.2BHP Purchase 25000 40.8BHP Purchase 87 40.8BHP Purchase 3054 40.8BHP Purchase 5026 41.23BHP Purchase 100000 40.4BHP Purchase 245763 41.0515 Total 835312 PurchasesBHP Sale 735312 40.9999BHP Sale 53258 40.4BHP Sale 46742 40.4 Total Sale 835312 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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