Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
26 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 16,607,577 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                              Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                          ---------------------------
        19 March 2007                                                   36,938
        20 March 2007                                                   71,394
        21 March 2007                                                   68,713
        22 March 2007                                                   87,256
        23 March 2007                                                  145,216

The Company was advised of these transactions on 23 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 any footnotes below, 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
                                      ------------


Andy Hodges
Deputy Company Secretary
26 March 2007


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