Rio Tinto ADRs

The 2008 Annual Report and 2009 Notice of Meeting has been mailed to registered holders of ADRs. Holders of ADRs have the ability, upon request to the company secretary, to receive a hard copy of the 2008 Financial statements free of charge.

View the Group's Form 20-F

Annual and half-yearly reports, the annual report, financial statements, notices from annual general meetings & notices of meetings

New York Stock Exchange

The Listed Company Manual of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) requires a listed company to have a website and a foreign private issuer to include on its website its disclosure of any significant differences between its corporate governance practices and those under the NYSE Standards.

Rio Tinto plc, as a foreign issuer with American Depositary Shares listed on the NYSE, has reviewed the NYSE Standards and believes that its practices are broadly consistent with them, with one exception. The NYSE Standards state that companies must have a nominating/corporate governance committee composed entirely of independent directors and with written terms of reference which, in addition to identifying individuals qualified to become board members, develops and recommends to the board a set of corporate governance principles applicable to the Company. Rio Tinto has a Nominations committee information about which is set out in the 2008 Annual report and financial statements. This committee does not develop corporate governance principles for the board's approval. The board itself performs this task and approves the Group's overall system of governance and internal controls.