Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
27 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 20,356,686 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        20 November 2006                               4,000
        21 November 2006                              59,001
        22 November 2006                              37,500
        23 November 2006                              13,000
        24 November 2006                               3,000

The Company was advised of these transactions on 24 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(1)

                                      J N Wallington

                                      D M Weston


(1) Mr P Smith exercised and sold options on 24 November 2006. This transaction
was the subject of a separate announcement earlier today

Andy Hodges
Deputy Company Secretary
27 November 2006




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