Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
24 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 30,484,230 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

        Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         20 March 2006                                                  61,300
         21 March 2006                                                 151,790
         22 March 2006                                                  85,800
         23 March 2006                                                  70,805
         24 March 2006                                                 172,173

The Company was advised of these transactions on 23 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
                                    ---------
                                    J N Wallington
                                    ----------------

Andy Hodges
Deputy Company Secretary
24 March 2006



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