Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
11 November 2005


                       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 39,634,446 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        7 November 2005                                 55,297
        8 November 2005                                 94,495
        9 November 2005                                211,008
        10 November 2005                               105,016
        11 November 2005                                48,100


The Company was advised of these transactions on 11 November 2005.
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 were not connected with the transactions that took place on the
abovementioned dates.

Directors                             PDMRs
-----------                           -------

B E Davison                           A E Redman
                                      ------------

D A Hathorn                           R J King
                                      ----------

A W Lea                               P L Zim
                                      ---------

R Medori                              P M Baum
                                      ----------

S R Thompson                          R Havenstein
                                      --------------

A J Trahar                            R M Godsell
                                      -------------

                                      R S Robertson
                                      ---------------

                                      P Smith
                                      ---------

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

N Jordan
Company Secretary
11 November 2005




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