Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
20 November 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 20,473,187 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        13 November 2006                                                41,892
        14 November 2006                                                22,083
        15 November 2006                                                98,600
        16 November 2006                                                14,111
        17 November 2006                                                40,470

The Company was advised of these transactions on 17 November 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
                                      ------------



Catherine Marshall
Company Secretarial Assistant
20 November 2006

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