Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American plc (the "Company")

Registered office: 20 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AN

Registered number: 3564138

DIRECTOR'S / PDMR's INTERESTS

The Company announces that on 25 August 2010 Jack Thompson, an independent non-executive director of the Company, acquired 5,000 American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) in respect of the Company's ordinary shares at a price of US$17.30 per ADR. One ADR represents 0.5 ordinary shares of US$0.54945 each in the capital of the Company. 

The notification of these transactions is to satisfy the Company's obligations under the Financial Services Authority Disclosure and Transparency Rules 3.1.2 to 3.1.4 and Listing rule 9.6.11.

A W Hodges

Deputy Company Secretary

26 August 2010