Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
23 February 2007


                       Anglo American plc (the "Company")
         Registered office: 20 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AN
                           Registered number: 3564138

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 18,825,747 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        19 February 2007                          43,990
        20 February 2007                          26,411
        21 February 2007                         264,995
        22 February 2007                          31,462
        23 February 2007                          20,000

The Company was advised of these transactions on 23 February 2007.

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

                                     P Smith

                                     J N Wallington*

                                     D M Weston

*Mr J N Wallington (a PDMR) was connected with a transaction that took place on
22 February 2007 in respect of 10,000 Ordinary Shares, which was the subject of
a separate announcement.


Catherine Marshall
Company Secretarial Assistant
23 February 2007




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