Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

Anglo American PLC
7 April 2000

The following directors have acquired, in addition to the interests in ordinary
shares and options over ordinary shares of the Company already advised, an
interest, on a conditional basis, in the undermentioned ordinary shares:

                               Share

J Ogilvie Thompson             2,205
L Boyd                         1,520
Dr J W Campbell                1,269
M W King                       1,585
A J Trahar                     1,279

Therefore the total interests over ordinary shares are as follows:

J Ogilvie Thompson            40,433
L Boyd                        13,484
Dr J W Campbell               11,861
M W King                      29,247
A J Trahar                     2,577

The date of the transactions and the date of the Company was 5 April 2000.