ANGLO AMERICAN PLC - Anglo American appoints Marcelo Bastos to the Board

Anglo American appoints Marcelo Bastos to the Board

Anglo American plc (the "Company")
Registered office: 20 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AN
Registered number: 3564138 (incorporated in England and Wales)
Legal Entity Identifier: 549300S9XF92D1X8ME43
ISIN: GBOOB1XZS820
JSE Share Code: AGL
NSX Share Code: ANM

NEWS RELEASE

1 March 2019

Anglo American appoints Marcelo Bastos to the Board

Anglo American plc (“Anglo American”) announces that Marcelo Bastos will join the Board as a
non-executive director, with effect 1 April 2019.

Mr Bastos brings more than 30 years of experience in the mining industry, most recently as chief
operating officer of MMG, the global base metals producer with interests from Australia to Peru.
Following an executive career that included senior roles at BHP in Australia and Colombia, Mr
Bastos has taken on a number of advisory and non-executive roles with other mining, engineering
and logistics organisations.

Stuart Chambers, Chairman of Anglo American, said: “I look forward to welcoming Marcelo
Bastos to Anglo American’s Board. Marcelo’s extensive operational and project experience in
mining across numerous commodities and geographies, particularly in South America, will
ensure we continue to include the appropriate mix of skills and perspectives in our Board
discussions.”

There are no additional details to disclose under Listing Rule 9.6.13R in respect of the
appointment of Marcelo Bastos.

Notes to editors:

Board of Directors
Following Mr Bastos’ appointment, the Anglo American plc Board of Directors will comprise:

 Chairman             Executive directors                  Non-executive directors
 Stuart Chambers      Mark Cutifani – chief executive      Byron Grote (Senior Independent Director)
                      Stephen Pearce – finance director    Ian Ashby
                      Tony O’Neill – technical director    Marcelo Bastos
                                                           Nolitha Fakude
                                                           Mphu Ramatlapeng
                                                           Jim Rutherford
                                                           Anne Stevens
                                                           Jack Thompson (Until 30 April 2019)

Marcelo Bastos, age 56, served as chief operating officer of MMG between 2011 and 2017,
responsible for the group’s copper, zinc, silver, lead and gold operations, and sales and
marketing. In this role, he also led the planning and development of the Las Bambas copper mine
in Peru.

Prior to MMG, Mr Bastos served as president of the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance joint venture
(metallurgical coal), president of BHP’s Cerro Matoso nickel operation in Colombia, president of
nickel Americas, and president of Nickel West in Australia. His early career until 2004 at Vale
included serving as general manager of the Carajas operations in northern Brazil and he was
ultimately responsible for the base metals operations.

He is currently a non-executive director of Oz Minerals Ltd (from which he is due to step down in
April 2019), Aurizon Holdings Ltd, Golder Associates and Iluka Resources Ltd. Mr Bastos holds
a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in
Brazil and an MBA from Fundacao Dom Cabral, Brazil in partnership with INSEAD.

Anglo American is a leading global mining company and our products are the essential
ingredients in almost every aspect of modern life. Our portfolio of world-class competitive mining
operations and undeveloped resources provides the metals and minerals that enable a cleaner,
more electrified world and that meet the fast growing consumer-driven demands of the world’s
developed and maturing economies. With our people at the heart of our business, we use
innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and mine, process,
move and market our products to our customers around the world – safely, responsibly and
sustainably.

As a responsible miner – of diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum group metals, iron
ore, coal and nickel – we are the custodians of what are precious natural resources. We work
together with our business partners and diverse stakeholders to unlock the sustainable value that
those resources represent for our shareholders, the communities and countries in which we
operate, and for society as a whole. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people’s
lives.

www.angloamerican.com


For further information, please contact:

 Media                                                 Investors
 UK                                                    UK
 James Wyatt-Tilby                                     Paul Galloway
 james.wyatt-tilby@angloamerican.com                   paul.galloway@angloamerican.com
 Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8759                              Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8718

 Marcelo Esquivel                                      Robert Greenberg
 marcelo.esquivel@angloamerican.com                    robert.greenberg@angloamerican.com
 Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8891                              Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 2124

 South Africa                                          Emma Waterworth
 Pranill Ramchander                                    emma.waterworth@angloamerican.com
 pranill.ramchander@angloamerican.com                  Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8574
 Tel: +27 (0)11 638 2592

 Ann Farndell
 ann.farndell@angloamerican.com
 Tel: +27 (0)11 638 2786

The Company has a primary listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and
secondary listings on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the Botswana Stock Exchange, the
Namibia Stock Exchange and the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Sponsor
RAND MERCHANT BANK (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited)

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