Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
07 November 2002



                               Anglo American plc

                                (the "Company")



Anglo American Share Incentive Plan - SIP

Notification of Directors' Interests pursuant to section 324(2) of the Companies
Act 1985.


In terms of the SIP scheme, operated through Halifax plc, employees are able to
subscribe for the Company's ordinary shares of US$0.50 each ("ordinary shares")
and the Company matches the ordinary shares subscribed on a one-for-one basis
("matching shares").

The matching shares are transferred from the nominee of the Company's Employee
Share Scheme Trustees, the Butterfield Trust, to the SIP Trust operated by the
Halifax and a total of 20,492 ordinary shares were transferred yesterday. The
undermentioned executive directors of the Company are deemed to be interested in
those ordinary shares.

The total number of ordinary shares acquired by each of these executive
directors under the SIP Scheme, subscribed for by them and matched by the
Company on 07 November 2002, was as follows:

A J Trahar  28      ordinary shares

A W Lea     28     ordinary shares

W A Nairn   28     ordinary shares

Their total interests in the ordinary shares are now as follows:-

A J Trahar  87,334 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional
basis in 43,629 shares)

A W Lea     61,336 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional basis
in 26,422 shares)

W A Nairn   15,260 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional basis
in 7,630 shares)



N Jordan

Company Secretary

07 November 2002



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