Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
17 March 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 31,026,098 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

        Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         13 March 2006                               69,500
         14 March 2006                               20,203
         15 March 2006                               69,454
         16 March 2006                               77,000
         17 March 2006                              181,441

The Company was advised of these transactions on 17 March 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 the 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 L Zim

A J Trahar                          P M Baum

                                    R Havenstein

                                    R M Godsell

                                    R S Robertson

                                    P Smith(1)

                                    J N Wallington


(1) Mr Smith (a PDMR of the Company) was connected with a transaction that took
place on 13 March 2006 in respect of 23,000 Ordinary Shares, which was the
subject of a separate announcement.


Andy Hodges
Deputy Company Secretary
17 March 2006



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