Transaction in Own Shares

Anglo American PLC
19 October 2006


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

Following the increase in the buyback programme of US$4 billion announced in the
interim results announcement of Friday  4 August 2006, Anglo American announces
that on 18 October 2006 an independent company purchased 395,000 ordinary 
shares of Anglo American plc at prices between £23.67 and £23.96 per share. This
purchase was made by an independent  company to be funded by a wholly owned
overseas subsidiary of the Company, which wholly owned subsidiary will have the 
right to nominate a transferee for such shares, and otherwise in accordance with
arrangements substantially the same as  those announced by the Company on 23
March 2006.

Anglo American plc currently holds 28,472,396 ordinary shares in treasury, and
has 1,513,181,211 ordinary shares in  issue (excluding treasury shares) and the
independent companies referred to above and in the announcement of 23 March 
2006 together hold 29,522,464 ordinary shares, representing 1.95 per cent of
Anglo American plc's ordinary shares in  issue (excluding treasury shares).


G A Wilkinson
Deputy Secretary
Anglo American plc



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