Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
11 July 2005

                               Anglo American plc
                                (the "Company")

                  Anglo American Share Incentive Plan - SIP

The SIP is an Inland Revenue approved trust arrangement, operated through
Halifax plc, under which employees are able to buy ordinary shares in the
Company of US$0.50 each ("ordinary shares"), using monthly deductions from
salary, and receive an equivalent number of free ordinary shares ("matching
shares"). Both the purchased shares and the matching shares are held in the SIP
trust. The matching shares are acquired by the SIP Trust and allocated to the
relevant employees. During the short period of time between acquisition and
allocation, the executive directors of the Company are deemed to be interested
in those shares.

The following transactions took place in relation to the SIP on Friday 8 July
2005:
     
1.   The SIP trust acquired a total of 15,693 ordinary shares at a price of 
     £13.00 each, and allocated them to employee participants as matching 
     shares. The executive directors were deemed to become interested in those 
     ordinary shares on acquisition, and to cease to be interested in them on 
     allocation.

2.   The following executive directors and persons discharging managerial
     responsibility of the Company each purchased 10 ordinary shares at a price 
     of £13.00 and received 10 matching shares, free of charge:

     R J King (person discharging managerial responsibility)
     A W Lea (director)
     R S Robertson (person discharging managerial responsibility)
     S R Thompson (director)
     A J Trahar (director)

The notification of these transactions is intended to satisfy the Company's
obligations under both section 324 Companies Act 1985 and Disclosure Rule 3.1.2.

N Jordan
Company Secretary
11 July 2005


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