Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
18 November 2005


                       ANGLO AMERICAN plc (the "Company")

DIRECTORS' INTERESTS

The Company announces that, on 17 November 2005, Mr B E Davison exercised
Unapproved Executive Share Options, originally granted in 2001 and 2002, over
ordinary shares of US$0.50 in the capital of the Company, as follows:


Number of shares acquired                      Acquisition Price
    40,000                                       £10.025
    45,000                                       £11.50

The 85,000 shares acquired as a result of these transactions were sold on 17
November 2005 at £18.148040 per share.



N Jordan
Company Secretary
18 November 2005



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