Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
20 January 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 37,087,385 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

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

        16 January 2006                                       49,200
        17 January 2006                                       26,500
        18 January 2006                                       44,113
        19 January 2006                                          700
        20 January 2006                                       15,700

The Company was advised of these transactions on 20 January 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 the 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 L Zim

A J Trahar                            P M Baum

                                      R Havenstein

                                      R M Godsell

                                      R S Robertson

                                      P Smith

                                      J N Wallington

N Jordan
Company Secretary
20 January 2006


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