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 Mr B R Beamish, a PDMR, has notified the Company that he sold the following ordinaryshares on 31 May 2011:

·; 8,000 at a price of £30.54 per share; and

·; 6,245 at a price of ZAR343.01 per share.

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.

Nicholas Jordan

Company Secretary

1 June 2011