Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
04 August 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 23,636,923 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:


       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         31 July 2006                                 2,800
        1 August 2006                                18,857
        2 August 2006                                17,500
        3 August 2006                                27,400
        4 August 2006                                68,200

The Company was advised of these transactions on 4 August 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 any 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 M Baum
                                      ----------

A J Trahar                            R Havenstein
                                      --------------

                                      R M Godsell
                                      -------------

                                      R S Robertson
                                      ---------------

                                      P Smith
                                      ---------

                                      J N Wallington
                                      ----------------



Nick Jordan
Secretary
4 August 2006



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