Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
06 June 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 50,660,886 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         31 May 2005                                 204,753
         1 June 2005                                 215,321
         2 June 2005                                 112,764
         3 June 2005                                 250,433



The Company was advised of these transactions on 3 June 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.

D A Hathorn

A W Lea

A J Trahar

S R Thompson


N Jordan

Secretary

06 June 2005






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