Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
04 November 2005


                       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 40,148,362 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        31 October 2005                                173,191
        1 November 2005                                 72,751
        2 November 2005                                139,700
        3 November 2005                                 58,508
        4 November 2005                                106,249


The Company was advised of these transactions on 4 November 2005.

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 were not connected with the transactions that took place on the
abovementioned dates.

Directors                             PDMRs
-----------                           -------
B E Davison                           A E Redman
D A Hathorn                           R J King
A W Lea                               P L Zim
R Medori                              P M Baum
S R Thompson                          R Havenstein
A J Trahar                            R M Godsell
                                      R S Robertson
                                      P Smith
                                      J N Wallington


N Jordan
Company Secretary
04 November 2005



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