Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
14 March 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 53,391,545 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        07 March 2005                            91,356
        08 March 2005                           412,181
        09 March 2005                            49,013
        10 March 2005                             5,600
        11 March 2005                             7,500

The Company was advised of these transactions on 14 March 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
14 March 2005


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