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Macquarie Group Limited15 January 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 Rio Tinto Limited Class of relevant security to which the Ordinary shares ISIN: AU000000RIO1dealings being disclosed relate (Note 1) Date of dealing 14 January 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 (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 Fully Paid Ordinary ISIN: AU000000RIO1 3. DEALINGS (Note 3) (a) Purchases and sales 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 15 January 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 Price per securities unit 3 SALE 81 126SALE 98 126.4SALE 110 126.9SALE 67 126.77SALE 99 126.88SALE 62 127.04SALE 58 127.07SALE 54 127.19SALE 4 127.19SALE 49 127.19SALE 100 127.14SALE 12 127.14SALE 1 127.14SALE 61 127.2SALE 40 127.23SALE 51 127.25SALE 7 127.31SALE 41 127.28SALE 55 127.25SALE 62 127.33SALE 65 127.48SALE 93 127.29SALE 88 127.31SALE 76 127.33SALE 45 127.37SALE 43 127.37SALE 96 127.4SALE 100 127.14SALE 22 127.14SALE 99 126.95SALE 110 126.85SALE 98 126.84SALE 314 126.8SALE 122 126.5SALE 149 126.69SALE 138 126.93SALE 116 126.79SALE 127 126.78SALE 102 126.7SALE 6 126.69SALE 168 126.85SALE 151 126.9SALE 21 126.74SALE 133 126.74SALE 144 126.68SALE 118 126.68SALE 62 126.68SALE 184 126.6SALE 190 126.58SALE 180 126.74SALE 302 126.74SALE 298 126.63SALE 291 126.31SALE 349 126.22SALE 218 126.08SALE 1051 125PURCHASE 6981 126.4979TOTAL PURCHASE 6981TOTAL SALE 6981 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
Rio Tinto