Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
31 May 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 51,444,157 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         23 May 2005                                  75,084
         24 May 2005                                 165,816
         25 May 2005                                 146,059
         26 May 2005                                 159,300
         27 May 2005                                 228,636

The Company was advised of these transactions on 27 May 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. 

     B E Davison
     D A Hathorn
     A W Lea
     A J Trahar
     S R Thompson


N Jordan
Secretary
31 May 2005



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