Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
19 May 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 25,052,862 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

        Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
          15 May 2006                               57,324
          16 May 2006                               51,560
          17 May 2006                               10,754
          18 May 2006                               26,502
          19 May 2006                                 0

The Company was advised of these transactions on 19 May 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 M Baum
A J Trahar                          R Havenstein
                                    R M Godsell
                                    R S Robertson
                                    P Smith
                                    J N Wallington

N Jordan
Company Secretary

19 May 2006



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