Anglo American plc notification: De Beers Société Anonyme interim results 2012 Anglo American plc (the Company) Incorporated in the United Kingdom (Registration number: 3564138) Short name: Anglo Share code: AGL ISIN number: GB00B1XZS820 Anglo American plc notification: De Beers Société Anonyme interim results 2012 Anglo American plc wishes to draw attention to the De Beers Société Anonyme (De Beers) announcement of its results for the six months ended 30 June 2012. De Beers reported underlying earnings of $385 million. Anglo American plc arrives at its underlying earnings in respect of De Beers by accounting for the interests arising from the ordinary shares it holds. Anglo American plc will therefore report underlying earnings of $176 million from its investment in De Beers, as reconciled in the table below: $m 6 months 6 months Year ended ended ended 30.06.12 30.06.11 31.12.11 De Beers underlying earnings (100%) 385 666 968 Difference in IAS 19 accounting policy 6 (1) 17 De Beers underlying earnings Anglo American plc basis (100%) 391 665 985 Contribution to Anglo American plc underlying earnings(1) 176 299 443 (1) Anglo American plcs 45% ordinary share interest. Anglo American plc will report results for the six months ended 30 June 2012 on 27 July 2012. The above figures are unaudited. Underlying earnings Underlying earnings is net profit attributable to equity shareholders, adjusted to remove special items and remeasurements, and any related tax and non-controlling interests. Special items are those items of financial performance that the Group believes should be excluded from underlying financial performance. Operating special items include impairment charges and reversals and other exceptional items, including restructuring costs. Non-operating special items include profits and losses on disposals of investments and businesses as well as certain adjustments relating to business combinations. Remeasurements include adjustments to ensure that the unrealised gains or losses on non-hedge derivative instruments are recorded in underlying earnings in the same period as the underlying transaction against which these instruments provide an economic, but not formally designated, hedge as well as foreign exchange impact arising in US dollar functional currency entities on deferred tax balances. 20 July 2012 Sponsor: UBS South Africa (Pty) Ltd Date: 20/07/2012 09:51:00 Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited ('JSE'). The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information published on SENS. The JSE, their officers, employees and agents accept no liability for (or in respect of) any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind or nature, howsoever arising, from the use of SENS or the use of, or reliance on, information disseminated through SENS.