Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
08 May 2008


                       Anglo American plc (the "Company")
         Registered office: 20 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AN
                           Registered number: 356413



Anglo American Share Incentive Plan - SIP

The SIP is an Inland Revenue approved trust arrangement, operated through
Halifax plc, under which employees are able to buy ordinary shares in the
Company of US$0.54945 each ("ordinary shares"), using monthly deductions from
salary, and are allocated an equivalent number of free ordinary shares
("matching shares"). Both the purchased shares and the matching shares are held
in the SIP trust. The matching shares are acquired by the SIP Trust and
allocated to the relevant employees. During the short period of time between
acquisition and allocation, the executive directors of the Company are deemed to
be interested in those shares.

The Company announces that the following transactions took place in relation to
the SIP on Thursday 8 May 2008:

1. 5,603 shares were allocated to employee participants as matching shares.

2. The following executive directors / persons discharging managerial
responsibility ("PDMR") of the Company each acquired the undernoted ordinary
shares at a price of £34.58 and were allocated an equal number of matching
shares, free of charge:

B R Beamish (PDMR) 4 ordinary shares
C B Carroll (director) 4 ordinary shares
R J King (PDMR) 4 ordinary shares
R Medori (director) 4 ordinary shares
D Weston (PDMR) 3 ordinary shares


The notification of these transactions is to satisfy the Company's obligations
under the Financial Services Authority Disclosure and Transparency Rules 3.1.2
to 3.1.4.

N Jordan
Company Secretary
8 May 2008



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