Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
18 November 2005


                       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 39,090,789 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        14 November 2005                          26,000
        15 November 2005                         165,223
        16 November 2005                         117,872
        17 November 2005                         130,700
        18 November 2005                         103,862

The Company was advised of these transactions on 18 November 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                             PDMRs
-----------                           -------

B E Davison*                          A E Redman
                               
D A Hathorn                           R J King
                               
A W Lea                               P L Zim
                               
R Medori                              P M Baum
                               
S R Thompson                          R Havenstein
                               
A J Trahar                            R M Godsell
                               
                                      R S Robertson
                               
                                      P Smith
                                
                                      J N Wallington
                                      
*Mr B E Davison (a Director) was connected with a transaction that took place on
17 November 2005 in respect of 85,000 Ordinary Shares, which was the subject of
a separate announcement issued earlier today by the Company.

N Jordan
Company Secretary
18 November 2005



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