Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
21 October 2005


                               ANGLO AMERICAN PLC

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 40,938,586 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        17 October 2005                            12,613
        18 October 2005                            10,581
        19 October 2005                             9,109
        20 October 2005                             3,916
        21 October 2005                                 -

The Company was advised of these transactions on 21 October 2005.

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 were not connected with the transactions that took place on the
abovementioned dates.

Directors                             PDMRs
-----------                           -------

B E Davison                           A E Redman                                      
D A Hathorn                           R J King
A W Lea                               P L Zim
R Medori                              P M Baum
S R Thompson                          R Havenstein
A J Trahar                            R M Godsell
                                      R S Robertson
                                      P Smith
                                      J N Wallington
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N Jordan
Company Secretary
21 October 2005



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