Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
05 January 2006


                       Anglo American plc (the "Company")


  Notification of transactions of Directors and Persons Discharging Managerial
                            Responsibility ("PDMRs")


Deferred Bonus Plan Disclosures

Under the terms of the Company's Deferred Bonus Plan, certain employees and the
executive directors ("Participants") receive a bonus in the form of the
Company's ordinary shares of US$0.50 each ("ordinary shares") together with an
award of an equal number of free ordinary shares ("matching shares") which is
conditional on the Participants' continued employment with participating
companies until the third anniversary of the award date.

On 4 January 2006, the Company's employee share trust released the matching
shares to the undernoted directors and PDMRs for no consideration, upon
satisfaction of the three-year employment condition.

In December 2005, it was agreed with directors and PDMRs that their entitlements
to matching shares would be reduced, where necessary, by the respective number
of matching shares required to pay any income tax and social security charges
due on the release of the matching shares. The number of ordinary shares, net of
any tax / social security charges, released to each director and PDMR on 4
January 2006 was therefore as follows:

Director No. of ordinary shares Released

Mr D A Hathorn 5,644

Mr S R Thompson 5,014

Mr A J Trahar 22,718

PDMR No. of ordinary shares Released

Mr P M Baum 1,415

Mr R J King 2,129

Mr A E Redman 1,805

Mr R S Robertson 2,450

Mr P Smith 1,462

Mr J Wallington 1,269

The release of matching shares to all Participants on 4 January 2006 (including
the ordinary shares referred to above) caused the number of ordinary shares held
by the employee share trust, in which the executive directors, along with all
the group employees, are treated as interested, to be reduced by a total of
85,669 ordinary shares.



The notification of these transactions is intended to satisfy the Company's
obligations under both section 324 of the Companies Act 1985 and the Financial
Services Authority Disclosure Rules 3.1.2 to 3.1.4

N Jordan
Company Secretary
5 January 2006



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