Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
02 June 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 24,868,826 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         30 May 2006                                   27,000
         31 May 2006                                   14,912
         01 June 2006                                  54,000
         02 June 2006                                  19,600

The Company was advised of these transactions on 2 June 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



Nick Jordan
Secretary
02 June 2006



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