Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
10 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 24,004,413 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                                Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                            ---------------------------
         3 July 2006                                                   175,584
         4 July 2006                                                    40,584
         5 July 2006                                                    30,630
         6 July 2006                                                    66,746
         7 July 2006                                                    22,296

The Company was advised of these transactions on 7 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 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
10 July 2006



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