Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
18 March 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 53,165,122 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        14 March 2005                               26,084
        15 March 2005                               14,092
        16 March 2005                                1,111
        17 March 2005                               34,300
        18 March 2005                              150,836

The Company was advised of these transactions on 18 March 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
18 March 2005



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