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Macquarie Group Limited08 May 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 07 May 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 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 08 May 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 1547 45.4405 BHP Sale 55 45.58BHP Sale 46 45.62BHP Sale 22 45.62BHP Sale 40 45.59BHP Sale 19 45.56BHP Sale 15 45.56BHP Sale 33 45.56BHP Sale 28 45.55BHP Sale 27 45.51BHP Sale 30 45.5BHP Sale 22 45.52BHP Sale 24 45.51BHP Sale 23 45.47BHP Sale 23 45.47BHP Sale 20 45.49BHP Sale 19 45.54BHP Sale 18 45.49BHP Sale 19 45.46BHP Sale 20 45.45BHP Sale 15 45.42BHP Sale 19 45.42BHP Sale 19 45.46BHP Sale 18 45.47BHP Sale 20 45.46BHP Sale 18 45.52BHP Sale 17 45.53BHP Sale 15 45.53BHP Sale 15 45.49BHP Sale 14 45.48BHP Sale 12 45.49BHP Sale 15 45.46BHP Sale 11 45.46BHP Sale 11 45.45BHP Sale 11 45.46BHP Sale 7 45.45BHP Sale 12 45.46BHP Sale 11 45.44BHP Sale 6 45.46BHP Sale 9 45.47BHP Sale 8 45.51BHP Sale 8 45.5BHP Sale 8 45.51BHP Sale 7 45.51BHP Sale 7 45.52BHP Sale 8 45.51BHP Sale 10 45.5BHP Sale 8 45.5BHP Sale 7 45.52BHP Sale 9 45.5BHP Sale 10 45.47BHP Sale 12 45.4BHP Sale 13 45.42BHP Sale 12 45.43BHP Sale 18 45.37BHP Sale 16 45.21BHP Sale 15 45.24BHP Sale 15 45.31BHP Sale 17 45.25BHP Sale 17 45.3BHP Sale 23 45.36BHP Sale 14 45.34BHP Sale 17 45.35BHP Sale 4 45.35BHP Sale 19 45.33BHP Sale 19 45.21BHP Sale 21 45.18BHP Sale 26 45.19BHP Sale 20 45.27BHP Sale 22 45.27BHP Sale 3 45.28BHP Sale 22 45.28BHP Sale 23 45.32BHP Sale 25 45.35BHP Sale 1 45.35BHP Sale 7 45.38BHP Sale 22 45.38BHP Sale 32 45.35BHP Sale 44 45.35BHP Sale 36 45.33BHP Sale 144 45.29 Total 1547 Sales This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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