Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
07 November 2003


                               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 13,600 ordinary shares were transferred today. The
undermentioned executive directors of the Company, together with some 2,400
employees, are potential beneficiaries and are therefore, 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 2003, was as follows:


A J Trahar                         18             ordinary shares

A W Lea                            18             ordinary shares

W A Nairn                          18             ordinary shares


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


A J Trahar  152,072 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional basis
in 70,882 shares)

A W Lea    84,755   ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional basis
in 33,159 shares)

W A Nairn  35,658   ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional basis
in 16,309 shares)







G A Wilkinson

Deputy Company Secretary

07 November 2003







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