Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
09 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 21,496,845 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         2 October 2006                             35,000
         3 October 2006                             53,091
         4 October 2006                                400
         5 October 2006                             24,805
         6 October 2006                             38,513

The Company was advised of these transactions on 6 October 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

*Mr Redman, (a PDMR) was connected with a transaction that took place on 3
October 2006 in respect of 8,000 Ordinary Shares, which was the subject of a
separate announcement.

Nick Jordan
Company Secretary
9 October 2006



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