Transaction in own shares

Anglo American PLC
11 October 2006



                       Anglo American plc (the "Company")
                  Purchases of Ordinary Shares in the Company

Further to the announcement released by the Company at 7am on 11 October 2006,
the Company announces that an error was  made in the calculation of the sterling
maximum purchase price relating to shares purchased by the independent company.

The announcement should have stated the following:

"Following the increase in the buyback programme of US$4 billion announced in
the interim results announcement of Friday 4 August 2006, the Company announces
that on 10 October 2006 an independent company purchased 600,000 ordinary shares
of the Company at prices between £22.56 and £22.92 per share."


N Jordan
Company Secretary
Anglo American plc
11 October 2006





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