Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
01 December 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 20,254,559 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        27 November 2006                                                38,700
        28 November 2006                                                11,099
        29 November 2006                                                31,500
        30 November 2006                                                15,321
        1 December 2006                                                  5,507

The Company was advised of these transactions on 1 December 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
                                      ---------

                                      J N Wallington
                                      ----------------

                                      D M Weston
                                      ------------



Catherine Marshall
Company Secretarial Assistant
1 December 2006




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