Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
31 October 2005


                       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 40,698,761 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
       24 October 2005                                                       -
        25 October 2005                                                  7,505
        26 October 2005                                                 72,036
        27 October 2005                                                 97,884
        28 October 2005                                                 62,400

The Company was advised of these transactions on 28 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
                                      ----------------

*Mr A E Redman (a PDMR) was connected with a transaction that took place on 28
October 2005 in respect of 10,000 Ordinary Shares, which was the subject of a
separate announcement earlier today by the Company.

N Jordan
Company Secretary
31 October 2005



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