Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
18 August 2006


                       ANGLO AMERICAN plc (the "Company")

Anglo American Employee Share Ownership Plan

The Butterfield Trust (Guernsey) Limited, as trustee of the Anglo American
Employee Share Ownership Plan (the "Trust"), transferred the following Ordinary
Shares in the Company to participants of the Anglo American share schemes
leaving a balance of 22,854,702 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:


       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         14 August 2006                             89,191
         15 August 2006                             28,848
         16 August 2006                            142,508
         17 August 2006                            157,986
         18 August 2006                             39,622

The Company was advised of these transactions on 18 August 2006.

The following executive directors and PDMRs, together with all employees, are
potential beneficiaries of the Trust, and are therefore deemed to be technically
interested but, save as explained in any footnotes below, were not connected
with the transactions that took place on the abovementioned dates.


Directors                             PDMRs
-----------                           -------

D A Hathorn                           A E Redman
R Medori                              R J King
S R Thompson                          P M Baum
A J Trahar                            R Havenstein
                                      R M Godsell
                                      R S Robertson
                                      P Smith
                                      J N Wallington

Andy Hodges
Deputy Secretary
18 August 2006



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