Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
02 October 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 21,648,654 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:


       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
       26 September 2006                              0
       27 September 2006                          8,025
       28 September 2006                          2,000
       29 September 2006                          8,887
       30 September 2006                         26,200


The Company was advised of these transactions on 30 September 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 any 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 M Baum
A J Trahar                            R Havenstein
                                      R M Godsell
                                      R S Robertson
                                      P Smith
                                      J N Wallington




Andy Hodges
Deputy Secretary
2 October 2006




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