Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
25 February 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 54,172,109 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        21 February 2005                          17,000
        22 February 2005                           5,581
        23 February 2005                           6,536
        24 February 2005                          55,220
        25 February 2005                          82,361

The Company was advised of these transactions on 25 February 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
25 February 2005



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