Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
15 December 2006


                     We 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 19,975,754 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        11 December 2006                                                30,750
        12 December 2006                                                    50
        13 December 2006                                                 9,923
        14 December 2006                                                12,496
        15 December 2006                                                41,692

The Company was advised of these transactions on 15 December 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
                                      ----------------

                                      D M Weston
                                      ------------



Catherine Marshall
Company Secretarial Assistant
15 December 2006




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