Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
28 January 2005



                               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 54,885,552 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        24 January 2005                           192
        25 January 2005                             -
        26 January 2005                         3,501
        27 January 2005                        11,200
        28 January 2005                         2,400

The Company was advised of these transactions on 28 January 2005.

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
                        A J Trahar

G A Wilkinson
Deputy Secretary
28 January 2005



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