Transaction in Own Shares

Anglo American PLC
03 August 2007



                       Anglo American plc (the "Company")
                  Purchases of Ordinary Shares in the Company

The buyback programme of US$3 billion announced in the annual results press
release of 21 February 2007 commenced on 1 May 2007. The Company announces that
on 2 August 2007, an independent company purchased 383,861 ordinary shares of
the Company at prices between £27.77 and £28.39 per share. This purchase was
made by an independent company to be funded by a wholly owned overseas
subsidiary of the Company, which wholly owned subsidiary will have the right to
nominate a transferee for such shares, and otherwise in accordance with
arrangements substantially the same as those announced by the Company on 23
March 2006.

Anglo American plc currently holds 74,532,563 ordinary shares in treasury, and
has 1,328,377,695 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares) and the
independent companies referred to above and in the announcement of 23 March 2006
together hold 75,931,569 ordinary shares, representing 5.72 per cent of Anglo
American plc's ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

Catherine Marshall
Companies Secretary
Anglo American plc
3 August 2007





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