Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
21 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 54,902,845 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        17 January 2005                            10,615
        18 January 2005                            24,368
        19 January 2005                            15,840
        20 January 2005                             2,000
        21 January 2005                             5,614

The Company was advised of these transactions on 21 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

N Jordan
Secretary
21 January 2005



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