Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
23 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 42,148,262 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
       19 September 2005                             324,320
       20 September 2005                             232,462
       21 September 2005                             287,626
       22 September 2005                             179,486
       23 September 2005                             137,400

The Company was advised of these transactions on 23 September 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

N Jordan
Company Secretary
23 September 2005



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