Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American plc (the "Company")

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

Registered number: 356413

Anglo American Share Incentive Plan - SIP

The Company announces that the undernoted awards were made in relation to the SIP (an Inland Revenue approved all-employee share plan) on Friday 9 March 2012:

The following executive directors / persons discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMR") of the Company were allocated the undernoted ordinary shares in the Company of US$0.54945 each ("Ordinary Shares") in accordance with the terms of the SIP at no cost:

B R Beamish (PDMR) 116 Ordinary Shares

C B Carroll (director) 116 Ordinary Shares

R Médori (director) 116 Ordinary Shares

M A S Walker (PDMR) 116 Ordinary Shares

D G Wanblad (PDMR) 116 Ordinary Shares

D M Weston (PDMR) 116 Ordinary Shares

P G Whitcutt (PDMR) 116 Ordinary Shares

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.

N Jordan

Company Secretary

13 March 2012