Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
01 July 2005


                               ANGLO AMERICAN PLC

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 49,299,147 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                              Number of Ordinary Shares
       ----------------                              -------------------------

         27 June 2005                                                    9,284
         28 June 2005                                                   52,500
         29 June 2005                                                   32,700
         30 June 2005                                                   35,300
         1 July 2005                                                    27,084

The Company was advised of these transactions on 1 July 2005.
The following executive directors, 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.

                                   B E Davison
                                   D A Hathorn
                                   A W Lea
                                   R Medori
                                   S R Thompson
                                   A J Trahar

N Jordan
Secretary
01 July 2005


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