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Macquarie Group Limited12 February 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 dealings Ordinary shares ISIN:being disclosed relate (Note 1) AU000000BHP4 Date of dealing 11 February 2008 2. INTERESTS, SHORT POSITIONS AND RIGHTS TO SUBSCRIBE (a) Interests and short positions (following dealing) in the class of relevantsecurity 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 0.00% 0 0.00% (b) Interests and short positions in relevant securities of the company, otherthan 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 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 Long/short (Note Number of securities (Note Price per unit (Notename, 5) 6) 4)e.g. CFD (c) Options transactions in respect of existing securities (i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying Product Writing, Number of Exercise Type, e.g. Expiry Optionname, selling, securities to American, money purchasing, which the option European varying etc. relates (Note 6) etc.e.g. price date paid/call receivedoption per unit (Note 4) (ii) Exercising Product name, e.g. call Number of Exercise price per unit (Noteoption securities 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 persondisclosing and any other person relating to the voting rights of any relevantsecurities under any option referred to on this form or relating to the votingrights or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which anyderivative referred to on this form is referenced. If none, this should bestated. Is a Supplemental Form 38.5(b) attached? (Note 8) YES/NO Date of disclosure 12 February 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 Purchase/sale Number of Price per unit securities (AUD) PURCHASE 35000 36.97PURCHASE 34000 36.92PURCHASE 34000 37.05PURCHASE 34000 37.1PURCHASE 34000 37.1PURCHASE 34000 37.03PURCHASE 34000 37.03PURCHASE 34602 36.85PURCHASE 34000 36.8PURCHASE 34000 36.74PURCHASE 34000 36.62PURCHASE 34000 36.55PURCHASE 34000 36.6PURCHASE 34000 36.48PURCHASE 34000 36.55PURCHASE 300 36.55PURCHASE 500 36.55PURCHASE 400 36.55PURCHASE 500 36.55PURCHASE 952 36.55PURCHASE 713 36.55PURCHASE 22 36.55PURCHASE 1170 36.55PURCHASE 300 36.55PURCHASE 3508 36.55PURCHASE 99 36.53PURCHASE 2000 36.53PURCHASE 34000 36.55PURCHASE 34000 36.28PURCHASE 34000 36.28PURCHASE 34000 36.26PURCHASE 34000 36.28SALE 4961 36.94SALE 39 36.94SALE 941 36.94SALE 5000 36.94SALE 22715 36.9SALE 200 36.9SALE 1144 36.9SALE 451 36.94SALE 2790 36.94SALE 1759 36.94SALE 4000 36.96SALE 2465 36.97SALE 50 36.97SALE 2485 36.97SALE 5000 36.97SALE 1235 37.04SALE 2500 37.03SALE 453 37.03SALE 10812 37.02SALE 2791 37.05SALE 272 37.05SALE 1937 37.05SALE 5000 37.05SALE 40 37.07SALE 3596 37.07SALE 1364 37.07SALE 810 37.07SALE 4190 37.07SALE 4000 37.08SALE 5000 37.12SALE 2000 37.06SALE 491 37.06SALE 2509 37.06SALE 540 37.07SALE 4460 37.07SALE 136 37.07SALE 55 37.07SALE 3439 37.07SALE 40 37.07SALE 5330 37.07SALE 859 37.09SALE 4141 37.09SALE 2200 37.1SALE 7800 37.1SALE 832 37.1SALE 481 37.1SALE 24 37.1SALE 500 37.1SALE 3163 37.1SALE 5000 37.03SALE 2581 37.03SALE 6888 37.01SALE 469 37.01SALE 13 37.01SALE 19049 37.01SALE 2951 37.01SALE 442 37.01SALE 6607 37.01SALE 95 37SALE 457 37SALE 170 37SALE 1500 37SALE 8802 37SALE 2976 37SALE 9951 37SALE 49 37SALE 37 37.04SALE 36 37.04SALE 9 37.04SALE 104 37.04SALE 3075 37.04SALE 400 37.04SALE 339 37.04SALE 3777 37.05SALE 1223 37.05SALE 640 37.06SALE 40 37.06SALE 1000 37.06SALE 2232 37.06SALE 2952 37.04SALE 2048 37.04SALE 472 37.04SALE 224 37.04SALE 4304 37.04SALE 696 37.04SALE 500 36.95SALE 300 36.95SALE 500 36.95SALE 423 36.95SALE 3600 36.95SALE 1583 36.95SALE 1100 36.95SALE 500 36.93SALE 798 36.93SALE 500 36.89SALE 200 36.89SALE 9300 36.89SALE 2000 36.88SALE 2602 36.88SALE 5000 36.87SALE 1500 36.85SALE 70 36.82SALE 3417 36.82SALE 9 36.82SALE 4 36.82SALE 220 36.83SALE 135 36.83SALE 5000 36.83SALE 4645 36.83SALE 1260 36.82SALE 1740 36.82SALE 1536 36.82SALE 1536 36.82SALE 2088 36.82SALE 1840 36.82SALE 1245 36.84SALE 2755 36.84SALE 95 36.84SALE 6000 36.84SALE 3905 36.84SALE 460 36.84SALE 8000 36.84SALE 1540 36.84SALE 701 36.74SALE 4299 36.74SALE 3071 36.75SALE 1929 36.75SALE 4530 36.76SALE 40 36.76SALE 430 36.76SALE 268 36.74SALE 3732 36.74SALE 300 36.72SALE 18 36.72SALE 4029 36.72SALE 114 36.7SALE 1000 36.7SALE 1000 36.7SALE 18 36.7SALE 811 36.7SALE 700 36.7SALE 7010 36.7SALE 300 36.63SALE 1500 36.63SALE 427 36.58SALE 2000 36.58SALE 170 36.58SALE 603 36.58SALE 5000 36.62SALE 3162 36.65SALE 1838 36.65SALE 5000 36.62SALE 1939 36.62SALE 2061 36.62SALE 989 36.5SALE 3009 36.5SALE 6002 36.45SALE 1784 36.51SALE 207 36.51SALE 2364 36.51SALE 645 36.51SALE 3239 36.53SALE 265 36.5SALE 5000 36.5SALE 8 36.5SALE 4883 36.5SALE 10000 36.5SALE 2000 36.5SALE 500 36.5SALE 55 36.5SALE 3050 36.5SALE 1909 36.5SALE 109 36.5SALE 1000 36.5SALE 1000 36.5SALE 528 36.5SALE 10000 36.5SALE 454 36.5SALE 1775 36.5SALE 340 36.5SALE 340 36.5SALE 12545 36.5SALE 4000 36.45SALE 548 36.51SALE 2207 36.51SALE 1947 36.51SALE 298 36.51SALE 1035 36.51SALE 3965 36.51SALE 25 36.51SALE 223 36.51SALE 177 36.51SALE 1940 36.56SALE 21635 36.55SALE 63365 36.55SALE 500 36.53SALE 104 36.53SALE 346 36.53SALE 1425 36.53SALE 2724 36.53SALE 415 36.52SALE 9585 36.52SALE 1088 37.06SALE 1390 36.31SALE 3610 36.31SALE 893 36.31SALE 2094 36.31SALE 50 36.31SALE 15 36.31SALE 1947 36.31SALE 1 36.31SALE 129 36.31SALE 443 36.31SALE 7 36.31SALE 9421 36.31SALE 173 36.29SALE 5000 36.28SALE 66 36.28SALE 8760 36.28SALE 1 36.28SALE 688 36.29SALE 15 36.29SALE 114 36.29SALE 275 36.29SALE 25 36.29SALE 336 36.29SALE 400 36.29SALE 6575 36.26SALE 1240 36.26SALE 14 36.26SALE 300 36.26SALE 1190 36.26SALE 1000 36.26SALE 500 36.26SALE 60 36.26SALE 3833 36.26SALE 2365 36.26SALE 272 36.26SALE 500 36.26SALE 270 36.26SALE 1881 36.26SALE 98 36.26SALE 200 36.26SALE 1000 36.26SALE 201 36.26SALE 500 36.26SALE 1159 36.26SALE 280 36.26SALE 8709 36.26SALE 1407 36.27SALE 3593 36.27SALE 2115 36.27SALE 2885 36.27SALE 193 36.27SALE 4807 36.27SALE 4821 36.27SALE 179 36.27SALE 3098 36.27SALE 25 36.27SALE 544 36.27SALE 333 36.27SALE 528 36.27SALE 9472 36.28SALE 155 36.28SALE 64 36.28SALE 1030 36.28SALE 1000 36.28SALE 200 36.28SALE 201 36.28SALE 500 36.28SALE 474 36.28SALE 376 36.28SALE 1011 36.29SALE 3568 36.29SALE 421 36.29SALE 397 36.3SALE 2445 36.3SALE 82 36.3SALE 2076 36.3SALE 3461 36.3SALE 1539 36.3SALE 5197 36.3SALE 5000 36.3SALE 696 36.3SALE 4107 36.3TOTAL PURCHASES 692,066TOTAL SALES 692,066 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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