Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
10 March 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 31,443,696 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

        Date of Transfer                             Number of Ordinary Shares

          6 March 2006                                       1,442,013
          7 March 2006                                       1,817,026
          8 March 2006                                         294,683
          9 March 2006                                          71,600
         10 March 2006                                          62,000

The Company was advised of these transactions on 10 March 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 L Zim
A J Trahar (1)                      P M Baum
                                    R Havenstein
                                    R M Godsell
                                    R S Robertson
                                    P Smith
                                    J N Wallington(2)


(1) Mr A J Trahar (an executive director of the Company) was connected with a
transaction that took place on 6 March 2006 in respect of 115,000 Ordinary
Shares, which was the subject of a separate announcement.

(2) Mr Wallington (a PDMR of the Company) was connected with a transaction that
took place on 7 March 2006 in respect of 10,000 Ordinary Shares, which was the
subject of a separate announcement.


Andy Hodges
Deputy Company Secretary
10 March 2006



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