Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
08 July 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 47,100,789 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         04 July 2005                             882,023
         05 July 2005                             180,586
         06 July 2005                              35,900
         07 July 2005                               3,000
         08 July 2005                              15,693

The Company was advised of these transactions on 8 July 2005.

The following executive directors, 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.

                        B E Davison
                        D A Hathorn
                        A W Lea
                        R Medori
                        S R Thompson
                        A J Trahar

N Jordan
Secretary
08 July 2005



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