Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
26 November 2004



                               ANGLO AMERICAN PLC

Anglo American Employee Share Ownership Plan
The Butterfield Trust (Guernsey) Limited, as trustee of the Anglo American
Employee Share Ownership Plan (the "Trust"), transferred the following Ordinary
Shares in the Company to participants of the Anglo American share schemes
leaving a balance of 55,411,223 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:


       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        22 November 2004                         1,000
        24 November 2004                         5,714
        26 November 2004                         5,152


The Company was advised of these transactions on 26 November 2004.
The following directors, together with all employees, are potential
beneficiaries of the Trust, and are therefore deemed to be technically
interested, but the directors were not connected with the transactions that 
took place on the abovementioned dates.

                            B E Davison
                            A W Lea
                            W A Nairn
                            A J Trahar

N Jordan
Secretary
26 November 2004



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