Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
17 June 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 49,832,495 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
         13 June 2005                                                   19,608
         14 June 2005                                                  204,272
         15 June 2005                                                   35,684
         16 June 2005                                                  101,716
         17 June 2005                                                   77,200


The Company was advised of these transactions on 17 June 2005.

The following executive directors, together with all employees, are potential
beneficiaries of the Trust, and are therefore deemed to be technically
interested but were not connected with the transactions that took place on the
abovementioned dates.

B E Davison

D A Hathorn

A W Lea

R Medori

S R Thompson



N Jordan

Secretary

17 June 2005






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