Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
11 February 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 54,579,171 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        07 February 2005                          33,042
        08 February 2005                          33,516
        09 February 2005                          53,870
        10 February 2005                           2,000
        11 February 2005                           4,416

The Company was advised of these transactions on 11 February 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
11 February 2005



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