Company: RTNTF
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0001104659-25-022024
Chunk: 93

Company: RIO TINTO LTD
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: 424B2
Chunk 93
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 published by, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) a ruling in each case to the effect that we may make the above deposit without causing beneficial owners of the debt securities to be taxed on the debt securities any differently than if we did not make the deposit and just repaid the debt securities ourselves.

However, even if we, Rio Tinto plc or Rio Tinto Limited take these actions, a number of our obligations relating to the debt securities will remain. These include the following obligations:

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to register the transfer and exchange of debt securities;

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to replace mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen debt securities;

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to maintain paying agencies; and

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to hold money for payment in trust.

#### Covenant Defeasance
We, Rio Tinto plc or Rio Tinto Limited can be legally released from compliance with certain covenants, including those described under “— Restrictive Covenants ” and any that may be described in the applicable prospectus supplement and including the related Events of Default if we, Rio Tinto plc or Rio Tinto Limited, as the case may be, take all the steps described above under “— Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance — Defeasance and Discharge ” except that the opinion of counsel does not have to refer to a change in U.S. federal income tax laws or a ruling from the IRS.

#### Further Issues
We may from time to time, without your consent, create and issue further notes having the same terms and conditions as the notes so that the further issue is consolidated and forms a single series with such notes, provided however that such further notes will not have the same CUSIP, ISIN or other identifying number as the outstanding notes of the relevant series unless the further notes are fungible with the outstanding notes of the relevant series for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

#### Default and Related Matters

#### Ranking
The debt securities are not secured by any of our property or assets nor Rio Tinto’s property or assets. Accordingly, holders of debt securities are unsecured creditors of Rio Tinto. The debt securities are not subordinated to any of our or Rio Tinto’s other debt obligations and therefore they rank equally with all our and Rio Tinto’s other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness.

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#### Events of Default
Holders will have special rights if an event of default occurs and is not cured, as described later in this subsection.

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