Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
19 March 2007


Anglo American plc
(the "Company")



Anglo American Bonus Share Plan - "BSP"

On 16 March 2007 the Company announced an increase in the share interests of
certain directors and persons discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMRs")
following the vesting of the 2004 BSP. As part of the vesting process, some of
those shares were sold to fund tax and National Insurance liabilities upon
vesting. The sale price was 2,462.0129 pence per share.

Accordingly, the share interests of the following executive directors and PDMRs,
have reduced by the following amounts:

P M Baum (PDMR) 307 shares
D A Hathorn (director) 1,882 shares
R J King (PDMR) 9,573 shares
A E Redman (PDMR) 383 shares
P Smith (PDMR) 4,782 shares
S R Thompson (director) 10,953 shares
A J Trahar (director) 23,423 shares

In addition, Mr S R Thompson sold a further 11,545 shares at the same time and
same price as the transactions referred to above.

The notification of these transactions is to satisfy the Company's obligations
under the Financial Services Authority Disclosure Rules 3.1.2 to 3.1.4.

N Jordan
Company Secretary
19 March 2007



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