Transaction in Own Shares

Anglo American PLC
03 October 2007



Anglo American PLC ("the Company")
Registered office: 20 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AN
Registered number: 3564138

Purchases of Ordinary Shares in the Company

The Company announces that, pursuant to the authority granted by shareholders at
the Extraordinary General Meeting held on 25 June 2007, Anglo American plc
purchased 100,000 of its ordinary shares on 2 October 2007 at prices between
£32.65 and £33.90 per share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury
shares.

Anglo American plc currently holds 19,031,518 ordinary shares in treasury, and
has 1,323,878,740 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares) and the
independent companies referred to in the announcement of 23 March 2006 together
hold 90,656,580 ordinary shares, representing 6.85 per cent of Anglo American
plc's ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).


Catherine Marshall
Companies Secretary
Anglo American plc
3 October 2007





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