Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
07 October 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 20,904 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 07 October 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  87,306 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional
    basis in 43,615 shares)

    A W Lea     61,308 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional 
    basis in 26,408 shares)

    W A Nairn   15,232 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional 
    basis in 7,616 shares)


A J Guthrie

Companies Secretary

07 October 2002



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