Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
29 July 2005



                               ANGLO AMERICAN PLC

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 46,117,730 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         25 July 2005                                129,588
         26 July 2005                                138,700
         27 July 2005                                174,841
         28 July 2005                                 80,408
         29 July 2005                                 66,000

The Company was advised of these transactions on 29 July 2005.

The following executive directors, 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.

B E Davison
D A Hathorn
A W Lea
R Medori
S R Thompson
A J Trahar

N Jordan
Secretary
29 July 2005



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