Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
13 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 27,167,324 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

        Date of Transfer                              Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                            ---------------------------
         10 April 2006                                                 215,780
         11 April 2006                                                 182,280
         12 April 2006                                                 222,978
         13 April 2006                                                  37,950

The Company was advised of these transactions on 13 April 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 (1)                         A E Redman
                                        ------------
R Medori                                R J King
                                        ----------
S R Thompson                            P L Zim
                                        ---------
A J Trahar                              P M Baum
                                        ----------
                                        R Havenstein
                                        --------------
                                        R M Godsell
                                        -------------
                                        R S Robertson
                                        ---------------
                                        P Smith
                                        ---------
                                        J N Wallington
                                        ----------------

(1) Mr Hathorn (an Executive Director of the Company) was connected with a
transaction that took place on 10 April 2006 in respect of 60,000 Ordinary
Shares, which was the subject of a separate announcement.


N Jordan
Company Secretary
13 April 2006



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