Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
12 January 2007


                     We 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 19,700,279 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         8 January 2007                              11,407
         9 January 2007                               5,943
        10 January 2007                               9,768
        11 January 2007                               2,000
        12 January 2007                              20,932

The Company was advised of these transactions on 12 January 2007.

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 any footnotes below, were not connected
with the transactions that took place on the abovementioned dates.

Directors                             PDMRs
-----------                           -------

D A Hathorn                           A E Redman

R Medori                              R J King

S R Thompson                          P M Baum

A J Trahar                            R Havenstein

                                      R M Godsell

                                      P Smith

                                      J N Wallington

                                      D M Weston


Catherine Marshall
Company Secretarial Assistant
12 January 2007


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