Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
24 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 49,456,015 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         20 June 2005                               55,389
         21 June 2005                              154,078
         22 June 2005                               28,808
         23 June 2005                               61,005
         24 June 2005                               77,200

The Company was advised of these transactions on 24 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
R Medori
S R Thompson
A J Trahar

N Jordan
Secretary
24 June 2005



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