Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
07 October 2004


                               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 13,599 ordinary shares were transferred today at a price
of £13.46. 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 7 October 2004, was as follows:

     A J Trahar                         18                  ordinary shares
     A W Lea                            18                  ordinary shares
     W A Nairn                          18                  ordinary shares


N Jordan
Company Secretary
7 October 2004


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