Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
02 September 2005



                               ANGLO AMERICAN PLC

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 43,955,379 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         30 August 2005                              5,935
         31 August 2005                              9,840
       01 September 2005                            151,002
       02 September 2005                             26,000

The Company was advised of these transactions on 02 August 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

B E Davison
D A Hathorn
A W Lea
R Medori
S R Thompson
A J Trahar

PDMRs

A E Redman
R J King
P L Zim
P M Baum
R Havenstein
R M Godsell
R S Robertson
P Smith
J N Wallington




G A Wilkinson
Deputy Secretary
02 September 2005



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