Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
07 December 2005


                               Anglo American plc
                                (the "Company")


                  Anglo American Share Incentive Plan - SIP


The SIP is an Inland Revenue approved trust arrangement, operated through
Halifax plc, under which employees are able to buy ordinary shares in the
Company of US$0.50 each ("ordinary shares"), using monthly deductions from
salary, and are allocated an equivalent number of free ordinary shares
("matching shares"). Both the purchased shares and the matching shares are held
in the SIP trust. The matching shares are acquired by the SIP Trust and
allocated to the relevant employees. During the short period of time between
acquisition and allocation, the executive directors of the Company are deemed to
be interested in those shares.

The following transactions took place in relation to the SIP on Wednesday 7
December 2005:

1. The SIP trust acquired a total of 10,777 ordinary shares at a price of £18.77
each, and allocated them to employee participants as matching shares. The
executive directors were deemed to become interested in those ordinary shares on
acquisition, and to cease to be interested in them on allocation.

2. The following executive directors and persons discharging managerial
responsibility of the Company each purchased 7 ordinary shares at a price of
£18.77 and were allocated 7 matching shares, free of charge:

    R J King (person discharging managerial responsibility)
    A W Lea (director)
    R S Robertson (person discharging managerial responsibility)
    P Smith (person discharging managerial responsibility)
    S R Thompson (director)
    A J Trahar (director)

The notification of these transactions is to satisfy the Company's obligations
under the Financial Services Authority Disclosure Rules 3.1.2 to 3.1.4.

N Jordan
Company Secretary
7 December 2005






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