Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
05 April 2007


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

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 16,140,209 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:
       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         2 April 2007                                  10,733
         3 April 2007                                  52,437
         4 April 2007                                  36,108
         5 April 2007                                  81,100

The Company was advised of these transactions on 5 April 2007.
The following 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
-----------                           -------

C B Carroll                           A E Redman
D A Hathorn                           R J King
R Medori                              P M Baum
S R Thompson                          R Havenstein
A J Trahar                            R M Godsell
                                      P Smith
                                      J N Wallington
                                      D M Weston


Catherine Marshall
Companies Secretary
5 April 2007




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