Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
12 August 2005


                               ANGLO AMERICAN PLC

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 44,533,402 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:


       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        8 August 2005                               213,466
        9 August 2005                               164,545
       10 August 2005                                99,842
       11 August 2005                               143,408
       12 August 2005                                45,433

The Company was advised of these transactions on 12 August 2005.

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 were not connected with the transactions that took place on the
abovementioned dates.

                                   Directors

                                   B E Davison
                                   D A Hathorn
                                   A W Lea
                                   R Medori
                                   S R Thompson
                                   A J Trahar
     
                                   PDMRs
     
                                   A E Redman
                                   R J King
                                   P L Zim
                                   P M Baum
                                   R Havenstein
                                   R M Godsell
                                   R S Robertson
                                   P Smith
                                   J N Wallington

N Jordan
Secretary
12 August 2005



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