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Anglo American details tailings storage facilities
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
7 June 2019
Anglo American details tailings storage facilities
Anglo American plc ("Anglo American") has today published on its website the details of its
91 managed tailings storage facilities (TSFs) and an additional 62 TSFs at non-managed joint
venture operations in which it has an interest, as requested by the Church of England Pensions
Board and the Swedish Council on Ethics for the AP Funds, representing 96 institutional investors.
Mark Cutifani, Chief Executive of Anglo American, said: "We have confidence in the integrity of
Anglo American's managed TSFs which are subject to the highest global safety and stewardship
standards, using appropriate advanced technologies such as satellite monitoring, fibre optics and
micro-seismic sensors. As an industry, we have a clear ethical and moral imperative to do
everything possible to ensure that tailings storage facilities are managed to the highest standards
of safety as we work together, as an industry, to build greater levels of trust with all our
stakeholders.
"Looking to the future, we are working on a number of technologies that we expect to significantly
reduce the volume of waste material we produce through our activities, and our ability to remove
water from that material and store it in drier form - improving its stability and further reducing
associated risks. A number of these technologies also offer major energy and fresh water usage
reductions for every ounce or tonne of metal or mineral we produce."
Anglo American completely revised and updated its technical standard for TSF safety
management in early 2014. The standard is updated as appropriate and goes beyond regulatory
and other industry requirements in all host jurisdictions. This mandatory global standard mitigates
the long-recognised principal risk that TSFs pose, sets minimum requirements for design criteria,
monitoring, inspection and surveillance, and was peer-reviewed by international specialists.
Anglo American has also received assurances from the operators of non-managed joint ventures
in which Anglo American has an interest relating to the safety of TSFs at those operations.
Of the 91 TSFs managed by Anglo American, 40 are in active use, 33 are inactive or in care and
maintenance, and 18 are closed or rehabilitated. In terms of the method of tailings storage, 39
use wet deposition while 52 use either dry-stacked or in-pit deposition.
In addition to the requested defined information, Anglo American has also published its full Group
Technical Standard in respect of Mineral Residue Facilities and Water Management Structures,
available at www.angloamerican.com/tsf.
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
Sibusiso Tshabalala
sibusiso.tshabalala@angloamerican.com
Tel: +27 (0)11 638 2175
Notes to editors:
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
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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