Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
24 February 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 35,717,606 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

        Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
        ----------------                    -------------------------
        20 February 2006                                       44,900
        21 February 2006                                        9,538
        22 February 2006                                       42,962
        23 February 2006                                      284,436
        24 February 2006                                      131,507

The Company was advised of these transactions on 24 February 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 L Zim

A J Trahar                          P M Baum

                                    R Havenstein

                                    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
24 February 2006 in respect of 5,000 Ordinary Shares, which was the subject of a
separate announcement.


A Hodges
Joint Deputy Company Secretary
24 February 2006



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