Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
25 August 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 22,480,839 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         21 August 2006                             22,495
         22 August 2006                            136,568
         23 August 2006                             92,500
         24 August 2006                             87,800
         25 August 2006                             34,500

The Company was advised of these transactions on 25 August 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 any 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 M Baum
                                      ----------

A J Trahar                            R Havenstein
                                      --------------

                                      R M Godsell
                                      -------------

                                      R S Robertson
                                      ---------------

                                      P Smith
                                      ---------

                                      J N Wallington
                                      ----------------

* Mr Redman (a PDMR of the Company) was connected with transactions that took
place on 24 August 2006 in respect of 5,000 Ordinary Shares, which were the
subject of a separate announcement.

Andy Hodges
Deputy Secretary
25 August 2006



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