Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
12 May 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 25,199,002 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

        Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
           8 May 2006                              64,900
           9 May 2006                             248,328
          10 May 2006                             124,173
          11 May 2006                             151,388
          12 May 2006                             137,756

The Company was advised of these transactions on 12 May 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 (1)
                                    ----------------

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
                                    ----------------





(1) Mr Redman, (a PDMR of the Company) was connected with a transaction that
took place on 10 May 2006 in respect of 3,000 Ordinary Shares, which was the
subject of a separate announcement.



Andy Hodges

Company Secretary

12 May 2006



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