Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
23 June 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 24,609,550 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         19 June 2006                                   0
         20 June 2006                              10,284
         21 June 2006                               8,277
         22 June 2006                              33,101
         23 June 2006                              41,100

The Company was advised of these transactions on 23 June 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, unless explained in 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


Andy Hodges
Deputy Secretary
23 June 2006



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