Director Shareholding

Anglo Pacific Group PLC
23 January 2001

Anglo Pacific Group plc ('the Company') announces that it received
notification today that the following Directors each purchased the following
number of Ordinary Shares in the Company on 22 January 2001 at a price of
17.0625p per share:

 Director     Number of Shares Total Shareholding in         Percentage Holding
                     Purchased               Company         Following Purchase

R L                  1,000,000             1,000,000                       1.15
Wood-Ward

P M Boycott            483,000             2,412,810                       2.77

M Chanarin             483,000               733,000                      0. 84

B M Wides              483,000             2,923,895                       3.36

H Michaelis             51,000             2,015,000                       2.32