Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
03 July 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 24,340,253 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         26 June 2006                                                   98,100
         27 June 2006                                                   48,200
         28 June 2006                                                   17,197
         29 June 2006                                                   34,300
         30 June 2006                                                   71,500

The Company was advised of these transactions on 3 July 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
                                      ------------
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
                                      ----------------


Nick Jordan
Secretary
03 July 2006



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