AA plc Share Incentive Plan

Anglo American PLC
08 August 2003


                               Anglo American plc
                                (the "Company")


Anglo American Share Incentive Plan - SIP


Notification of Directors' Interests pursuant to section 324(2) of the Companies
Act 1985.


In terms of the SIP scheme, operated through Halifax plc, employees are able to
subscribe for the Company's ordinary shares of US$0.50 each ("ordinary shares")
and the Company matches the ordinary shares subscribed on a one-for-one basis
("matching shares").


The matching shares are transferred from the nominee of the Company's Employee
Share Scheme Trustees, the Butterfield Trust, to the SIP Trust operated by the
Halifax and a total of 16,521 ordinary shares were transferred today. The
undermentioned executive directors of the Company, together with some 2,400
employees, are potential beneficiaries and are therefore, deemed to be
interested in those ordinary shares.


The total number of ordinary shares acquired by each of these executive
directors under the SIP Scheme, subscribed for by them and matched by the
Company on 07 August 2003, was as follows:


A J Trahar                         22   ordinary shares

A W Lea                            22   ordinary shares

W A Nairn                          22   ordinary shares


Their total interests in the ordinary shares are now as follows:-


A J Trahar      152,010 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional
                basis in 70,851 shares)

A W Lea         84,693 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional
                basis in 33,128 shares)

W A Nairn      35,596 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional
               basis in 16,278 shares)


G Wilkinson

Deputy Company Secretary

08 August 2003



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