Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
14 January 2005



                               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 54,961,282 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        10 January 2005                            18,106
        11 January 2005                             2,000
        12 January 2005                             4,816
        13 January 2005                             2,600
        14 January 2005                             3,200

The Company was advised of these transactions on 14 January 2005.
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
                    A J Trahar

G A Wilkinson
Deputy Company Secretary
14 January 2005



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