Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
15 April 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 52,591,741 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        11 April 2005                               43,073
        12 April 2005                               69,807
        13 April 2005                               23,027
        14 April 2005                                4,000
        15 April 2005                               17,600

The Company was advised of these transactions on 15 April 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
15 April 2005



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