Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
03 December 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 55,333,161 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:    

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        29 November 2004                            9,000
        30 November 2004                            1,000
        01 December 2004                           37,510
        02 December 2004                            1,300
        03 December 2004                           29,252

The Company was advised of these transactions on 03 December 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

G A Wilkinson
Deputy Secretary
03 December 2004



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