Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
12 April 2007


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

PDMR INTERESTS

The Company announces that, on 10 April 2007, Mr B R Beamish exercised Executive
Share Options, originally granted in 2003, over ordinary shares of US$0.50 in
the capital of the Company, as follows:

Number of shares acquired                      Acquisition Price
           14,000                               £9.28

The 14,000 shares acquired as a result of these transactions were sold on 10
April 2007 at £27.76 per share.

Andy Hodges
Deputy Company Secretary
12 April 2007



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