Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
08 September 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 14,414 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 05 September 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 152,032 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional
           basis in 70,862 shares)

A W Lea     84,715   ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional basis
            in 33,139 shares)

W A Nairn   35,618   ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional
            basis in 16,289 shares)


N Jordan
Company Secretary
08 September 2003

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