Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
17 December 2004



                        ANGLO AMERICAN PLC



Anglo American Employee Share Ownership Plan

The Butterfield Trust (Guernsey) Limited, as trustee of the Anglo American
Employee Share Ownership Plan (the "Trust"), transferred the following Ordinary
Shares in the Company to participants of the Anglo American share schemes
leaving a balance of 55,183,778 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        13 December 2004                              0
        14 December 2004                         24,714
        15 December 2004                          2,000
        16 December 2004                              0
        17 December 2004                        100,400

The Company was advised of these transactions on 17 December 2004.
The following directors, together with all employees, are potential
beneficiaries of the Trust, and are therefore deemed to be technically
interested, but the directors were not connected with the transactions that took
place on the abovementioned dates.

                B E Davison
                A W Lea
                W A Nairn
                A J Trahar


N Jordan
Secretary
17 December 2004



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