Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
18 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 21,748,661 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:


       Date of Transfer                           Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                          ---------------------------

       11 September 2006                                        19,000
       12 September 2006                                        21,318
       13 September 2006                                         5,000
       14 September 2006                                         5,000
       15 September 2006                                        12,000

The Company was advised of these transactions on 15 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
                                      



Nick Jordan
Company Secretary
18 September 2006




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