Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
02 February 2007





                       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 19,583,775 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:


       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        29 January 2007                             7,600

        30 January 2007                             5,732

        31 January 2007                             1,915

        1 February 2007                                 0

        2 February 2007                            37,200


The Company was advised of these transactions on 2 February 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
2 February 2007



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