Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
04 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 55,077,983 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        24 December 2004                            4,300
        29 December 2004                            5,200
        30 December 2004                           11,084


The Company was advised of these transactions on 04 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

N Jordan
Secretary
04 January 2005



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