Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
27 January 2006


                       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 36,862,577 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:


       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        23 January 2006                                6,500
        24 January 2006                                8,708
        25 January 2006                               21,100
        26 January 2006                               24,000
        27 January 2006                              164,500

The Company was advised of these transactions on 27 January 2006.

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, save as explained in the footnotes below, were not connected
with the transactions that took place on the abovementioned dates.

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

D A Hathorn                           A E Redman                                     

R Medori                              R J King                                       

S R Thompson                          P L Zim                                        

A J Trahar                            P M Baum                                      

                                      R Havenstein                                   

                                      R M Godsell                                        

                                      R S Robertson                                         

                                      P Smith                                        

                                      J N Wallington
                                   


N Jordan
Company Secretary
27 January 2006



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