Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
19 December 2005


                       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 38,070,004 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                              Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                          ---------------------------
        12 December 2005                                                78,023
        13 December 2005                                                47,552
        14 December 2005                                                12,200
        15 December 2005                                                24,139
        16 December 2005                                               157,116

The Company was advised of these transactions on 16 December 2005.

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 were not connected with the transactions that took place on the
abovementioned dates.

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

B E Davison                           A E Redman
                                      ------------

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

A W Lea                               P L Zim
                                      ---------

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

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

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

                                      R S Robertson
                                      ---------------

                                      P Smith
                                      ---------

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

*Mr A J Trahar (a Director) was connected with a transaction that took place on
16 November 2005 in respect of 157,116 Ordinary Shares, which was the subject of
a separate announcement issued earlier today by the Company.

N Jordan
Company Secretary
19 December 2005



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