Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
06 June 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 17,790 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 06 June 2003, was as follows:


A J Trahar                     26           ordinary shares

A W Lea                        26           ordinary shares

W A Nairn                      26           ordinary shares


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


A J Trahar 151,962 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional
basis in 70,827 shares)

A W Lea 84,645 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional basis
in 33,104 shares)

W A Nairn 35,548 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional
basis in 16,254 shares)


N Jordan

Company Secretary

06 June 2003







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