Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
30 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 41,459,963 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
       26 September 2005                            95,998
       27 September 2005                           159,057
       28 September 2005                            81,382
       29 September 2005                           119,989
       30 September 2005                           231,873


The Company was advised of these transactions on 30 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                              PDMRs
-----------                            -------

B E Davison                            A E Redman

D A Hathorn                            R J King
                                       ----------

A W Lea                                P L Zim
                                       ---------

R Medori                               P M Baum
                                       -----------

S R Thompson                           R Havenstein
                                       ---------------

A J Trahar                             R M Godsell
                                       --------------

                                       R S Robertson
                                       ----------------

                                       P Smith
                                       ----------

                                       J N Wallington
                                       ----------------


N Jordan
Company Secretary
30 September 2005






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