Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
03 October 2007


                       Anglo American plc (the "Company")
         Registered office: 20 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AN
                           Registered number: 3564138

DIRECTORS' / PDMR's INTERESTS

The Company announces that, a conditional award over 11,905 ordinary shares of
US$0.54945 nominal value in the capital of the Company ("Shares") granted to Mr
David Weston upon his appointment to the Company in 2006, vested on 2 October
2007.

4,881 Shares were sold at £33.100298 each to settle the tax and national
insurance liability and the balance of 7,024 Shares was released to Mr Weston
and sold in the market at £33.100298 per Share.

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

Nick Jordan
Company Secretary
3 October 2007


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