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Macquarie Group Limited07 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 06 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 8,987 0.00% (2) Derivatives (other than options) (3) Options and agreements to purchase/sell Total 8,987 0.00% 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 07 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 400 44.634BHP Purchase 30 44.67BHP Purchase 8472 44.67BHP Purchase 85 44.67BHP Purchase 10 44.38BHP Purchase 500 44.38BHP Purchase 1030 44.38BHP Purchase 96 44.38BHP Purchase 3364 44.38BHP Purchase 459 44.38BHP Purchase 890 44.38BHP Purchase 3651 44.38BHP Purchase 6669 44.34BHP Purchase 172 44.34BHP Purchase 18 44.34BHP Purchase 940 44.34BHP Purchase 201 44.34BHP Purchase 1943 44.32BHP Purchase 1000 44.32BHP Purchase 4057 44.34BHP Purchase 10000 44.52BHP Purchase 9 44.52BHP Purchase 991 44.52BHP Purchase 39 44.52BHP Purchase 39 44.52BHP Purchase 100 44.52BHP Purchase 427 44.52BHP Purchase 1395 44.52BHP Purchase 21 44.51BHP Purchase 2979 44.51BHP Purchase 3000 44.51BHP Purchase 18 44.5BHP Purchase 390 44.5BHP Purchase 1399 44.52BHP Purchase 990 44.52BHP Purchase 990 44.52BHP Purchase 40 44.52BHP Purchase 192 44.52BHP Purchase 20 44.52BHP Purchase 20 44.52BHP Purchase 1941 44.52BHP Purchase 1845 44.47BHP Purchase 256 44.47BHP Purchase 899 44.47BHP Purchase 548 44.47BHP Purchase 2247 44.47BHP Purchase 205 44.47BHP Purchase 1418 44.47BHP Purchase 120 44.47BHP Purchase 400 44.47BHP Purchase 165 44.47BHP Purchase 1897 44.47BHP Purchase 1611 44.47BHP Purchase 219 44.47BHP Purchase 122 44.47BHP Purchase 22 44.47BHP Purchase 890 44.47BHP Purchase 2136 44.47BHP Purchase 5000 44.47BHP Purchase 5000 44.52BHP Purchase 238766 44.522BHP Purchase 1548 44.522 Total 324301 Purchases BHP Sale 55 44.67BHP Sale 62 44.64BHP Sale 44 44.66BHP Sale 31 44.6BHP Sale 5 44.6BHP Sale 32 44.55BHP Sale 31 44.53BHP Sale 21 44.64BHP Sale 33 44.69BHP Sale 22 44.55BHP Sale 24 44.43BHP Sale 25 44.48BHP Sale 22 44.51BHP Sale 18 44.37BHP Sale 20 44.35BHP Sale 19 44.34BHP Sale 18 44.39BHP Sale 21 44.3BHP Sale 15 44.38BHP Sale 15 44.35BHP Sale 25000 44.35BHP Sale 21 44.37BHP Sale 19 44.36BHP Sale 19 44.34BHP Sale 17 44.34BHP Sale 18 44.31BHP Sale 14 44.36BHP Sale 15 44.36BHP Sale 13 44.44BHP Sale 14 44.41BHP Sale 15 44.47BHP Sale 12 44.48BHP Sale 12 44.49BHP Sale 10 44.44BHP Sale 9 44.43BHP Sale 11 44.5BHP Sale 9 44.57BHP Sale 7 44.61BHP Sale 9 44.61BHP Sale 7 44.6BHP Sale 9 44.56BHP Sale 8 44.61BHP Sale 7 44.62BHP Sale 8 44.52BHP Sale 7 44.53BHP Sale 10 44.53BHP Sale 7 44.56BHP Sale 8 44.54BHP Sale 8 44.55BHP Sale 11 44.55BHP Sale 12 44.58BHP Sale 13 44.56BHP Sale 14 44.54BHP Sale 15 44.55BHP Sale 19 44.54BHP Sale 16 44.56BHP Sale 14 44.53BHP Sale 16 44.5BHP Sale 20 44.52BHP Sale 19 44.53BHP Sale 25000 44.52BHP Sale 18 44.52BHP Sale 18 44.5BHP Sale 20 44.48BHP Sale 20 44.5BHP Sale 21 44.52BHP Sale 23 44.56BHP Sale 20 44.48BHP Sale 19 44.49BHP Sale 3 44.49BHP Sale 23 44.48BHP Sale 2 44.48BHP Sale 20000 44.47BHP Sale 5000 44.47BHP Sale 14 44.48BHP Sale 12 44.48BHP Sale 25 44.47BHP Sale 29 44.5BHP Sale 36 44.53BHP Sale 36 44.47BHP Sale 39 44.52BHP Sale 145 44.42BHP Sale 238766 44.50264 Total Sales 315314 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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