Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
09 January 2004

                               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 14,830 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 08 January 2004, was as follows:


A J Trahar             20           ordinary shares
A W Lea                20           ordinary shares
W A Nairn              20           ordinary shares


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

A J Trahar 148,068 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional
basis in 57,199 shares)

A W Lea 80,463 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional basis
in 22,608 shares)

W A Nairn 35,097 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional
basis in 14,126 shares)


N Jordan
Company Secretary
09 January 2004


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