Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
12 September 2002


                               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 19,098 ordinary shares were transferred yesterday. The
undermentioned executive directors of the Company are 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 11 September 2002, was as follows:

A J Trahar                30      ordinary shares

A W Lea                   30      ordinary shares

W A Nairn                 30      ordinary shares



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

A J Trahar    87,276 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional
              basis in 43,600 shares)

A W Lea       61,278 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional basis
              in 26,393 shares)

W A Nairn     15,202 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional basis
              in 7,601 shares)


A J Guthrie

Companies Secretary

12 September 2002



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