Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
16 September 2005



                               ANGLO AMERICAN PLC

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 43,309,556 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
       12 September 2005                                                13,800
       13 September 2005                                                35,100
       14 September 2005                                                18,008
       15 September 2005                                               158,484
       16 September 2005                                               244,716

The Company was advised of these transactions on 16 September 2005.

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 were not connected with the transactions that took place on the
abovementioned dates.

Directors

B E Davison
D A Hathorn
A W Lea
R Medori
S R Thompson
A J Trahar

PDMRs

A E Redman
R J King
P L Zim
P M Baum
R Havenstein
R M Godsell
R S Robertson
P Smith
J N Wallington

N Jordan
Company Secretary
16 September 2005



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