Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
03 January 2007



                       Anglo American plc ("the Company")

Directors' Interests

The Company announces that on 3 January 2007 the following non-executive
directors of the Company ("NEDs") subscribed for ordinary shares of US$0.50 in
the capital of the Company ("Shares") pursuant to a scheme compliant with
Paragraph 17 of the Model Code as follows:

Director                                 Number of Shares              Price £

R J Margetts                                          332               24.772
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart                                 436               24.772
F T M Phaswana                                        523               24.772
R C Alexander                                         116               24.772
P Woicke                                              466               24.772
M A Ramphele                                          201               24.772

The Shares are being allotted by subscription of their after-tax directors' fees
in respect of their services to the Company during the period 1 October to 31
December 2006.

Applications have been made to the UK Listing Authority and the London Stock
Exchange for 2,074 ordinary shares of US$0.50 each (the "Shares") to be admitted
to the Official List and to be admitted to trading respectively. In addition,
applications will be made to the Johannesburg, Swiss, Botswana and Namibian
Stock Exchanges for the Shares to be listed. The Shares will rank pari passu
with the existing issued ordinary shares of the Company.

Following the admission of these Shares the Company's issued share capital will
be 1,495,839,183 Shares (excluding those held in treasury).

The notification of these transactions is intended to satisfy the Company's
obligations under both section 324 Companies Act 1985 and Disclosure Rule 3.1.2.

Andy Hodges
Deputy Secretary
3 January 2007

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