Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
10 April 2006


Anglo American plc
(the "Company")

                              Directors' Interests

The Company announces that on 10 April 2006 Mr D A Hathorn, an Executive
Director of the Company exercised options to acquire and immediately sold,
ordinary shares of US$0.50 in the capital of the Company (the "Shares") under
the Anglo American plc Executive Share Option Scheme as follows:

Number of Share Options       Option Strike Price        Share Sale Price
                    
60,000                        £9.28                      £23.665



                Anglo American Share Incentive Plan - SIP

The SIP is an Inland Revenue approved trust arrangement, operated through
Halifax plc, under which employees are able to buy ordinary shares in the
Company of US$0.50 each ("ordinary shares"), using monthly deductions from
salary, and are allocated an equivalent number of free ordinary shares
("matching shares"). Both the purchased shares and the matching shares are held
in the SIP trust. The matching shares are acquired by the SIP Trust and
allocated to the relevant employees. During the short period of time between
acquisition and allocation, the executive directors of the Company are deemed to
be interested in those shares.

The following transactions took place in relation to the SIP on Friday 7 April
2006:

1. The SIP trust acquired a total of 8,739 ordinary shares at a price of £23.62
each, and allocated them to employee participants as matching shares. The
executive directors were deemed to become interested in those ordinary shares on
acquisition, and to cease to be interested in them on allocation.

2. The following executive directors and persons discharging managerial
responsibility ("PDMR") of the Company each purchased 5 ordinary shares at a
price of £23.62 and were allocated 5 matching shares, free of charge:


R J King      (PDMR)
R S Robertson (PDMR)
P Smith       (PDMR)
S R Thompson  (director)
A J Trahar    (director)

The notification of these transactions is to satisfy the Company's obligations
under the Financial Services Authority Disclosure Rules 3.1.2 to 3.1.4.

A Hodges
Deputy Company Secretary
10 April 2006



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