Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
02 December 2005


                       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 38,697,665 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        28 November 2005                           40,900
        29 November 2005                           28,800
        30 November 2005                           23,183
        1 December 2005                            16,700
        2 December 2005                            13,000

The Company was advised of these transactions on 2 December 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                             PDMRs
-----------                           -------
B E Davison                           A E Redman
D A Hathorn                           R J King
A W Lea                               P L Zim
R Medori                              P M Baum
S R Thompson                          R Havenstein
A J Trahar                            R M Godsell
                                      R S Robertson
                                      P Smith
                                      J N Wallington


G A Wilkinson
Deputy Secretary
02 December 2005



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