Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
30 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 24,984,338 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

        Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
          22 May 2006                              13,000
          23 May 2006                              10,800
          24 May 2006                              27,224
          25 May 2006                              17,500
          26 May 2006                                   0

The Company was advised of these transactions on 26 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, 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
                                    ----------------





N Jordan
Company Secretary
30 May 2006



                      This information is provided by RNS
            The company news service from the London Stock Exchange