Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
03 March 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 35,131,018 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

        Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        27 February 2006                              33,300
        28 February 2006                             227,642
          1 March 2006                               133,200
          2 March 2006                               125,046
          3 March 2006                                67,400

The Company was advised of these transactions on 3 March 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 R S Robertson (a PDMR) was connected with a transaction that took place on 1
March 2006 in respect of 36,300 Ordinary Shares, which was the subject of a
separate announcement.


Andy Hodges
Deputy Company Secretary
03 March 2006



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