Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
16 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 19,212,605 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        12 February 2007                                                 4,063
        13 February 2007                                                83,080
        14 February 2007                                                70,196
        15 February 2007                                                27,500
        16 February 2007                                                40,000

The Company was advised of these transactions on 16 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
16 February 2007




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