Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
03 April 2006


                       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 29,347,749 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

        Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         27 March 2006                            198,604
         28 March 2006                            361,807
         29 March 2006                            174,936
         30 March 2006                            151,628
         31 March 2006                            249,506

The Company was advised of these transactions on 31 March 2006.

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, save as explained in the footnotes below, were not connected
with the transactions that took place on the abovementioned dates.


Directors                              PDMRs
-----------                            -------

D A Hathorn                            A E Redman
                                       

R Medori                               R J King
                                       

S R Thompson                           P L Zim
                                      

A J Trahar (1)                         P M Baum
                                       

                                       R Havenstein
                                     

                                       R M Godsell
                                      

                                       R S Robertson
                                      

                                       P Smith
                                      

                                       J N Wallington
                                    



(1)  Mr Trahar (Chief Executive of the Company) was connected with two
transactions that took place on 28 March 2006 in respect of 38,870 Ordinary
Shares, which were the subject of a separate announcement.





Andy Hodges

Deputy Company Secretary

03 April 2006



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