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Macquarie Bank Ld11 December 2007 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 10 December 2007 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 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 price American, date paid/received pere.g. call option varying etc. relates (Note 6) European etc. 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 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 11 December 2007 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 Securities Price per Unit (AUD)SALE 907 43.7SALE 887 43.67SALE 20 43.66SALE 709 43.66SALE 101 43.62SALE 588 43.62SALE 648 43.59SALE 663 43.59SALE 300 43.59SALE 992 43.59SALE 403 43.59SALE 176 43.59SALE 559 43.62SALE 502 43.71SALE 159 43.73SALE 89 43.73SALE 342 43.73SALE 474 43.74SALE 422 43.71SALE 34 43.74SALE 281 43.74SALE 377 43.7SALE 346 43.7SALE 115 43.69SALE 259 43.69SALE 149 43.73SALE 69 43.73SALE 137 43.73SALE 448 43.8SALE 150 43.79SALE 268 43.79SALE 25 43.84SALE 242 43.84SALE 35 43.82SALE 298 43.82SALE 313 43.79SALE 300 43.74SALE 302 43.78SALE 260 43.75SALE 3 43.75SALE 261 43.71SALE 237 43.69SALE 208 43.68SALE 171 43.69SALE 175 43.67SALE 140 43.64SALE 140 43.63SALE 1 43.66SALE 1 43.66SALE 126 43.66SALE 96 43.66SALE 108 43.68SALE 119 43.68SALE 56 43.69SALE 72 43.69SALE 108 43.69SALE 143 43.69SALE 129 43.69SALE 18 43.7SALE 35 43.68SALE 74 43.68SALE 6 43.68SALE 107 43.68SALE 58 43.68SALE 169 43.68SALE 25 43.68SALE 166 43.69SALE 199 43.69SALE 77 43.67SALE 78 43.67SALE 15 43.67SALE 38 43.67SALE 199 43.67SALE 243 43.68SALE 47 43.65SALE 306 43.65SALE 312 43.66SALE 129 43.65SALE 24 43.65SALE 89 43.65SALE 283 43.65SALE 333 43.66SALE 277 43.69SALE 466 43.78SALE 94 43.69SALE 207 43.69SALE 381 43.68SALE 168 43.66SALE 150 43.66SALE 402 43.67SALE 312 43.68SALE 322 43.69SALE 377 43.67SALE 422 43.7SALE 455 43.68SALE 384 43.65SALE 405 43.63SALE 557 43.65SALE 499 43.65SALE 571 43.59SALE 21 43.59SALE 617 43.65SALE 655 43.68SALE 1881 43.59PURCHASE 28296 43.6718TOTAL SALES 28296TOTAL PURCHASES 28296 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
BHP Group