Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
05 August 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 45,200,096 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:   #


       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        1 August 2005                               85,244
        2 August 2005                              220,308
        3 August 2005                               97,890
        4 August 2005                              262,531
        5 August 2005                              251,661


The Company was advised of these transactions on 5 August 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

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

                    PDMRs

                    A E Redman
                    R J King
                    P L Zim
                    P M Baum
                    R Havenstein
                    R M Godsell
                    R S Robertson
                    P Smith
                    J N Wallington

N Jordan
Secretary
05 August 2005




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