Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
19 March 2007


                       Anglo American plc (the "Company")
         Registered office: 20 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AN
                           Registered number: 3564138

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 17,017,094 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        12 March 2007                                                  367,221
        13 March 2007                                                   66,084
        14 March 2007                                                   16,224
        15 March 2007                                                  550,970
        16 March 2007                                                   48,428

The Company was advised of these transactions on 16 March 2007.

The following 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 announcements made by the Company on Friday
16 March and earlier today, were not connected with the transactions that took
place on the abovementioned dates.

Directors                             PDMRs
-----------                           -------

C B Carroll                           A E Redman

D A Hathorn                           R J King

R Medori                              P M Baum

S R Thompson                          R Havenstein

A J Trahar                            R M Godsell

                                      P Smith

                                      J N Wallington

                                      D M Weston



Catherine Marshall
Companies Secretary
19 March 2007




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