Rio Tinto Jersey Holdings 2010 Limited a wholly owned subsidiary of the Rio Tinto Group, has received acceptances to its takeover offer for Riversdale Mining Limited from CSN Europe Lda in respect of CSN's entire 19.35% shareholding in Riversdale. Rio Tinto has now obtained an interest in more than 72% of all the shares in Riversdale.

In addition, the Offer period has been extended by nine days to end at 7.00PM Sydney time on April 29th 2011, unless extended further.

The handling fee described in RTJ's Third Supplementary Bidder's Statement will apply throughout the extended Offer period. RTJ may extend the period during which the handling fee will apply by further announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

The following documents were submitted to the Australian Securities Exchange:

A notice under section 650D of the Corporations Act regarding the extension to the Offer period and a letter to Riversdale shareholders.