Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
02 April 2007


                       Anglo American plc (the "Company")
         Registered office: 20 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AN
                           Registered number: 3564138

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 16,320,587 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ----------------                    -------------------------
        26 March 2007                               42,198
        27 March 2007                               91,475
        28 March 2007                                9,817
        29 March 2007                               48,475
        30 March 2007                               95,025

The Company was advised of these transactions on 30 March 2007.

The following 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
---------                             -----

C B Carroll                           A E Redman
                                      ----------

D A Hathorn                           R J King
                                      --------

R Medori                              P M Baum
                                      --------

S R Thompson                          R Havenstein
                                      ------------

A J Trahar                            R M Godsell
                                      -----------

                                      P Smith
                                      -------

                                      J N Wallington
                                      --------------

                                      D M Weston
                                      ----------



Catherine Marshall
Companies Secretary
2 April 2007




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