Shareholding Notification

RNS Number : 5936B

Anglo Pacific Group PLC

19 August 2008

News Release

19th August 2008

Anglo Pacific Group PLC ('the Company')

Shareholding Notification

The Company has been informed on 18th August 2008 that, as at 14th August 2008, AXA S.A, and its group of companies, now hold an interest in 11,662,405 ordinary shares of 2p each in the Company. This holding represents approximately 10.93% of the voting rights of the Company's issued share capital.

These shares are represented by a beneficial interest of 617,084 shares (approximately 0.58% of the issued ordinary share capital) and a non-beneficial interest of 11,045,321 shares (approximately 10.35% of the issued ordinary share capital).

The identity of each registered holder of the shares to which this notice relates, so far as is known to AXA Investment Managers UK Limited, as at 14th August 2008, is as noted below:

Name of Company/Fund	Number of shares	% of issued share capital
AXA Ireland Pension Fund (non-beneficial)	2,734	0.00256
AXA Rosenberg (beneficial)	185,325	0.17366
AXA UK Investment Co ICVC UK Smaller Companies Fund (non-beneficial)	157,230	0.14733
AXA Rosenberg (beneficial)	120,720	0.11312
AXA France (non-beneficial)	230,000	0.21552
AXA Rosenberg (non-beneficial)	3,317,742	3.10890
Sun Life Pensions Management Ltd (beneficial)	73,865	0.06922
Sun Life Unit Assurance Ltd FTSE All Share Tracker (beneficial)	18,653	0.01748
Sun Life Pensions Management FTSE All Share Tracker (beneficial)	108,465	0.10164
AXA Framlington (non-beneficial)	325,137	0.30467
AXA Framlington (non-beneficial)	4,750,000	4.45100
AXA Framlington (non-beneficial)	2,252,478	2.11069
Framlington onshore private client (non-beneficial)	10,000	0.00937
AXA Sun Life With Profits Passive Fund (beneficial)	67,855	0.06358
AXA Sun Life With Profits Passive Fund (beneficial)	42,201	0.03954
Total beneficial Total non-beneficial Total	617,084 11,045,321 11,662,405	0.57824 10.35004 10.92828