Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
20 October 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 21,043,778 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                              Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                          ---------------------------
        16 October 2006                                                 42,654
        17 October 2006                                                 81,832
        18 October 2006                                                 22,070
        19 October 2006                                                 61,500
        20 October 2006                                                 43,338

The Company was advised of these transactions on 20 October 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*
                                     D M Weston

*Mr Wallington, (a PDMR) was connected with a transaction that took place on 20
October 2006 in respect of 10,000 Ordinary Shares, which was the subject of a
separate announcement.

Nick Jordan
Company Secretary
20 October 2006

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