Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
28 April 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 26,238,306 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

        Date of Transfer                             Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                            ---------------------------
         24 April 2006                                                 129,778
         25 April 2006                                                 111,611
         26 April 2006                                                  72,000
         27 April 2006                                                  39,000
         28 April 2006                                                  51,000

The Company was advised of these transactions on 28 April 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(2)
                                 ------------

                                 J N Wallington(1)
                                 -------------------



(1) Mr Wallington (a PDMR of the Company) was connected with a transaction that
took place on 25 April 2006 in respect of 10,000 Ordinary Shares, which was the
subject of a separate announcement.

(2) Mr Smith (a PDMR of the Company) was connected with a transaction that took
place on 26 April 2006 in respect of 31,500 Ordinary Shares, which was the
subject of a separate announcement.



Andy Hodges

Company Secretary

28 April 2006



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