Transaction in Own Shares

Anglo American PLC
21 August 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 on 20 August 2007, an independent company purchased
417,400 ordinary shares of the Company at prices between £25.75 and £26.59 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.

In addition to the above, and pursuant to the authority granted by shareholders
at the Extraordinary General Meeting held on 25 June 2007, Anglo American plc
purchased 125,000 of its ordinary shares on 20 August 2007 at prices between
£26.04 and £26.86 per share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury
shares.

Anglo American plc currently holds 16,640,563 ordinary shares in treasury, and
has 1,326,269,695 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares) and the
independent companies referred to in the announcement of 23 March 2006 together
hold 81,240,820 ordinary shares, representing 6.13 per cent of Anglo American
plc's ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).


Catherine Marshall
Companies Secretary
Anglo American plc
21 August 2007




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