Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
11 September 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 21,810,979 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                              Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                            ---------------------------
        4 September 2006                                                55,700
        5 September 2006                                                82,950
        6 September 2006                                                50,266
        7 September 2006                                                20,200
        8 September 2006                                                15,902

The Company was advised of these transactions on 8 September 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 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
                                       -------------

                                       R S Robertson*
                                       ----------------

                                       P Smith*
                                       ----------

                                       J N Wallington
                                       ----------------



Andy Hodges
Deputy Secretary
11 September 2006

* The Directors / PDMRs indicated above were connected with transactions that
took place on 8 September 2006, which were the subject of a separate
announcement released on that date.



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