Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
10 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 50,270,975 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         6 June 2005                                 105,264
         7 June 2005                                 147,847
         8 June 2005                                  34,516
         9 June 2005                                  51,784
         10 June 2005                                 50,500

The Company was advised of these transactions on 10 June 2005.

The following executive directors, together with all employees, are potential
beneficiaries of the Trust, and are therefore deemed to be technically
interested but were not connected with the transactions that took place on the
abovementioned dates.

B E Davison

D A Hathorn

A W Lea

R Medori

S R Thompson

A J Trahar


N Jordan

Secretary

10 June 2005






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