Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
23 December 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 37,700,131 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        19 December 2005                             48,373
        20 December 2005                            140,700
        21 December 2005                            145,000
        22 December 2005                             35,800

The Company was advised of these transactions on 23 December 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 A J Trahar (a Director) was connected with a transaction that took place on
20 December 2005 in respect of 115,000 Ordinary Shares, which was the subject of
a separate announcement issued on 20 December 2005.

G A Wilkinson
Deputy Company Secretary
23 December 2005



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