PDMR/Directors’ Interests Anglo American plc (“the Company”) Incorporated in the United Kingdom (Registration number: 3564138) Short name: Anglo Share code: AGL ISIN number: GB00B1XZS820 PDMR/DIRECTORS’ INTERESTS Anglo American plc announces the following conditional award of ordinary shares in the capital of the Company (“Shares”) under the Company’s Long Term Incentive Plan (“LTIP”). The LTIP provides directors and senior employees with shares awarded on a conditional basis as determined by the Remuneration Committee of the Board. The current award will vest in 2016, subject to the satisfaction of performance conditions. In accordance with the determination of the Remuneration Committee, and in accordance with the rules of the Long Term Incentive Plan, the Company made the following awards of Shares to directors and PDMRs on 1 March 2013: Name of Director / PDMR Number of Shares Mr R Médori 117,218 Mr B R Beamish 79,370 Mr D M Weston 79,370 Mr M A S Walker 79,370 Mr P G Whitcutt 71,465 Mr W De Simoni 34,000 Mr S French 50,000 Mr J MacKenzie 34,000 Mr D Wanblad 42,000 Mr P Castellari 28,000 Ms K Kweyama 25,000 Mr G Gomwe 35,000 Mr R Fernandes 22,000 The notification of these transactions is to satisfy the Company's obligations under the UKLA Disclosure and Transparency Rules 3.1.2 to 3.1.4. A Hodges Deputy Company Secretary 5 March 2013 Sponsor: UBS South Africa (Pty) Ltd Date: 05/03/2013 07:15:00 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.