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12/04/2017 16:40

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Rio Tinto PLC
12 April 2017
Rio Tinto plc - 2017 annual general meeting voting results
12 April 2017
The annual general meeting of Rio Tinto plc was held on 12 April 2017.
Under Rio Tinto's dual listed companies structure established in 1995, decisions on significant matters affecting shareholders of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited in similar ways are taken through a joint electoral procedure.
Resolutions 1 to 19 of the Rio Tinto plc annual general meeting fall into this category, and the results of the voting on these resolutions will be announced shortly after the Rio Tinto Limited annual general meeting which will be held in Sydney, Australia on 4 May 2017.
The remaining resolutions 20 to 23 were put to Rio Tinto plc shareholders on a poll at the annual general meeting today. The results of that poll were as follows:
Resolutions
For/Discretion (no of votes)
% for /discretion
Against
(no of votes)
Total votes validly cast
% of shares in issue
Withheld*
20. General authority to allot shares
915,275,730
90.05
101,128,256
1,016,403,986
73.99
2,035,465
21. Disapplication of pre-emption rights
773,128,535
76.15
242,117,246
1,015,245,781
73.91
3,187,669
22. Authority to purchase Rio Tinto plc shares 
1,003,583,580
98.59
14,357,517
1,017,941,097
74.11
495,043
23. Notice period for general meetings other than annual general meetings
965,487,970
94.83
52,601,901
1,018,089,871
74.12
346,346
*It should be noted that a vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes for and against each resolution.


For the purposes of section 341 of the UK Companies Act 2006, the votes validly cast are expressed in the table as a percentage of Rio Tinto plc's total issued share capital (excluding shares held in Treasury) as at 6pm on 10 April 2017, being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the Company's register of members in order to attend and vote at the annual general meeting. The number of shares in issue was 1,383,212,311 (excluding Treasury shares, 9,581,299). 
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of all the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM. 
The addresses and accompanying presentation given by the chairman and the chief executive at the annual general meeting held today are available at riotinto.com/AGM2017. 
Steve Allen
Company Secretary 
Tim Paine
Joint Company Secretary
Rio Tinto plc
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United Kingdom
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Rio Tinto Limited
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Australia 
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