Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
03 October 2006



                       Anglo American plc ("the Company")

Directors' Interests

The Company announces that on 3 October 2006 the following non-executive
directors of the Company ("NEDs") subscribed for ordinary shares of US$0.50 in
the capital of the Company ("Shares") pursuant to a scheme compliant with
Paragraph 17 of the Model Code as follows:

Director                                 Number of Shares              Price £

R J Margetts                                          380               21.705
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart                                 497               21.705
F T M Phaswana                                        596               21.705
R C Alexander                                         115               21.705
P Woicke                                              462               21.705
M A Ramphele                                           57               21.705

The Shares are being allotted to certain of the NEDs by subscription of their
after-tax directors' fees in respect of their services to the Company during the
period 1 July to 30 September 2006.

Applications have been made to the UK Listing Authority and the London Stock
Exchange for 2,107 ordinary shares of US$0.50 each (the "Shares") to be admitted
to the Official List and to be admitted to trading respectively. In addition,
applications will be made to the Johannesburg, Swiss, Botswana and Namibian
Stock Exchanges for the Shares to be listed. The Shares will rank pari passu
with the existing issued ordinary shares of the Company.

Following the admission of these Shares the Company's issued share capital will
be 1,517,290,592 Shares (excluding those held in treasury).

The notification of these transactions is intended to satisfy the Company's
obligations under both section 324 Companies Act 1985 and Disclosure Rule 3.1.2.

Andy Hodges
Deputy Secretary
3 October 2006



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