Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
10 May 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 17,582 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 10 May 2004, was as follows:

    A J Trahar            24           ordinary shares
    A W Lea               24           ordinary shares
    W A Nairn             24           ordinary shares

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

A J Trahar 287,558 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional
basis in 196,646 shares)

A W Lea 159,236 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional basis
in 101,341 shares)

W A Nairn 35,177 ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional
basis in 14,166 shares)



N Jordan
Company Secretary
10 May 2004




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