ANGLO AMERICAN PLC - Anglo American resumes Minas-Rio iron ore operation

Anglo American resumes Minas-Rio iron ore operation

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

21 December 2018

Anglo American resumes Minas-Rio iron ore operation

Anglo American plc (“Anglo American”) announces the resumption of operations at its Minas-Rio
iron ore operation in Brazil. The restart of the integrated iron ore operation follows an extensive
and detailed technical inspection of the 529km pipeline that carries the iron ore in slurry form
from the mine to the port, the pre-emptive repair of certain sections of the pipeline, and receipt
of the appropriate regulatory approvals. The inspection of the entire pipeline by specialist pipeline
inspection devices (“PIGs”), and the analysis of the collected data by expert teams drawn from
Brazil and internationally, confirmed the pipeline’s integrity.

Anglo American has taken a responsible approach and has pre-emptively replaced a 4km stretch
of pipeline where the two leaks of non-hazardous material had occurred, as well as a small
number of individual sections of pipe where the PIGs detected minor anomalies below the normal
threshold for intervention. Furthermore, Anglo American has shortened the intervals for future
inspections by PIGs from five years to two years to ensure the long-term integrity of the pipeline,
while also fitting a fibre-optic system of acoustic, temperature and vibration sensors along critical
sections of the pipeline to monitor its performance.

Mark Cutifani, Chief Executive of Anglo American, said: “The protection of the natural
environment surrounding local communities and the overall integrity of the pipeline have formed
the focus of our work to restart Minas-Rio and meet our obligations to our host communities,
employees, customers and other stakeholders. We congratulate our team on the ground that so
quickly restored the waterways to full health and put in place an improved additional water supply
to the nearby community. We also thank our technical teams and the group of specialist
institutions in Brazil and beyond for their diligence and spirit of partnership, and to our regulators
for their constructive approach. The extensive analysis confirmed the sound condition of the
pipeline and we have taken a number of preventative measures to provide additional reassurance
for the long term.

“The majority of our employees have been deployed across our operations in Brazil during this
year, including on the construction work required to secure our Step 3 operating licence for
Minas-Rio, and safety and other refresher training has been under way since early November in
preparation for the restart.”

Anglo American expects the operation to ramp up to 1.2 million tonnes (wet basis) per month and
to produce approximately 16-19 million tonnes (wet basis) of iron ore in 2019, with the expectation
that the Step 3 licences are received as planned. Minas-Rio is expected to report an underlying
EBITDA loss of $320 million for 2018, compared to guidance of a loss of $300-400 million.

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)

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                                           Sheena Jethwa
 Pranill Ramchander                                     sheena.jethwa@angloamerican.com
 pranill.ramchander@angloamerican.com                   Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8680
 Tel: +27 (0)11 638 2592

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


Notes to editors:

Anglo American is a global diversified mining business 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 to meet the 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.

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