Holding in Company

Anglo American PLC
21 December 2001



Notification concerning interests in ordinary shares of US$0.50 each in the
capital of Anglo American plc ('the Company')


We received today a notice given on behalf of the following entities pursuant
to sections 198(1), 202(3) and 202(4) of the Companies Act 1985 in relation to
the transactions specified below.


The entities concerned are:-


  * Capricorn Trustees Limited ('Capricorn') of 9 Columbus Centre, Pelican
    Drive, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands;

  * Central Holdings International Limited ('CHIL') of 8 Rheinbergerstrasse,
    Vaduz, Liechtenstein;

  * Centhold International Limited ('CHI') of 9 Columbus Centre, aforesaid;

  * Central Holdings Limited ('CHL') of 2 rue Tony Neuman, L-2241
    Luxembourg;

  * CHL Investments ('CHLI') of 2 rue Tony Neuman, aforesaid;

  * E O & Son Holdings Limited ('EOS') of 9 Columbus Centre, aforesaid;

  * Maitland Trustees Limited and Theseus Limited ('the EOS Trustees') both
    of 9 Columbus Centre, aforesaid; and

  * Spectre Limited ('Spectre') of 9 Columbus Centre, aforesaid.


    On 9 November 2001, CHIL, Capricorn, CHL, the EOS Trustees, EOS and
    Spectre advised of a notifiable interest in 71,742,085 Ordinary Shares,
    registered in the names of the companies listed below:-

        Company     Number of Ordinary Shares


        Capricorn Trustees Limited     8,945,656

        Centhold Limited     2,599,741

        CHL     29,595,964

        Debswana Diamond Company (Proprietary) Limited     18,321,987

        Felton Holdings Limited     1,169,892

        Gartland Limited     8,898,404

        Kavener Holdings Limited     1,577,664

        Mazarin Holdings Limited     631,643

        Naunton Limited     1,134


        Also on 9 November 2001, CHLI advised you of a notifiable interest of
        49,087,843 Ordinary Shares, being those registered in the names of
        CHL, Debswana Diamond Company (Proprietary) Limited and Felton
        Holdings Limited.

        On 23 November 2001, 5,000,000 of the Ordinary Shares previously
        registered in the name of CHL were registered in the name of Goldman
        Sachs Security Nominees Limited ('Goldman') leaving a balance of
        24,595,964 shares registered in the name of CHL.




On 20 December 2001, the Ordinary Shares previously registered as follows:-

Kavener Holdings Limited                                             1,577,664
Mazarin Holdings Limited                                               631,643
Capricorn Trustees Limited                                           8,945,656
Centhold Limited                                                     2,599,741


        ceased to be registered in the above names and became registered in
        the name of Naunton Limited.

        On 20 December 2001, CHIL ceased to have a notifiable interest in
        71,742,085 Ordinary Shares and CHI acquired a notifiable interest in
        71,742,085 Ordinary Shares.

        Following the above transactions, CHI, Capricorn, CHL, the EOS
        Trustees, EOS and Spectre had a notifiable interest in 71,742,085
        Ordinary Shares. These Ordinary Shares are registered as follows:-

Company                                                   No of Ordinary Shares
CHL                                                                  24,595,964
Goldman                                                               5,000,000
Debswana Diamond Company (Proprietary) Limited                       18,321,987
Felton Holdings Limited                                               1,169,892
Gartland Limited                                                      8,898,404
Naunton Limited                                                      13,755,838


        CHLI had a notifiable interest in 49,087,843 shares, being those
        specified above as registered in the names of CHL, Goldman, Debswana
        Diamond Company (Proprietary) Limited and Felton Holdings Limited.


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