Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
19 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 44,292,246 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:


       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         15 August 2005                             60,951
         16 August 2005                             92,688
         17 August 2005                             48,500
         18 August 2005                             22,417
         19 August 2005                             16,600


The Company was advised of these transactions on 19 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
19 August 2005



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