AngloGold Ashanti

AngloGold Ashanti’s Greenfields Exploration team has a strong track record of discovery over the past 20 years, including Tier 1 discoveries at Tropicana (Australia), Quebradona (Colombia) and Silicon-Merlin (Nevada). These periodic, high-quality discoveries are the result of several factors including strong executive management support, consistent budgets during periods of low and high gold prices and a diverse team with good culture, diversity, and technical skills.   Since handing over the 13.3 Moz Silicon-Merlin discovery to the Nevada Project team in 2022, AngloGold Ashanti’s Greenfields Exploration team continued to manage a portfolio that spans five countries – Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Tanzania, and the USA. New discoveries are made by continued exploration work, essentially drilling holes, and since the second half of this year AngloGold Ashanti’s Greenfields Exploration team is now drilling in each of these five countries.   While we read about declining investment in true Greenfields Exploration, AngloGold Ashanti continues to invest in the future and firmly believes that sustainable, organic growth via Greenfields Exploration remains an important driver for the long-term future of AngloGold Ashanti and the gold industry.  

AngloGold Ashanti is proud to support the @Consolidated Mining Standard Initiative vision for a less complex standards landscape that benefits all stakeholders, sets a high bar for responsible mining and drives continuous improvement across the wider mining industry. Embracing responsible practices means adopting a full life-cycle approach to metals and minerals production that promotes positive contributions to society, addresses its impacts on people and the environment, and supports progress to a circular economy. We encourage all interested stakeholders to provide feedback on the draft Standard and multi-stakeholder oversight system. Your views are important in delivering positive outcomes for industry, local communities, the environment and others in the minerals and metals value chain – from mining to smelting, refining and beyond. The public consultation is open until 16 December 2024. You can submit your feedback and learn more about the CMSI here: https://lnkd.in/ewRp-D8P

At AngloGold Ashanti we have long held safety as our key value. We all share a responsibility to prioritize safety in everything we do. Looking after our own health and wellbeing, and encouraging others to do the same, is a duty of each and every one of us. Our annual Global Safety Awards – Zero Harm Awards - consider safety initiatives introduced across our operations. As part of the judging process to select the annual winners all operations submit nominations for the Zero Harm Awards. Our Australian operations have taken ownership of the process at a site level and made it part of their everyday work routines; not just something that is visited once a year ahead of submissions for the group awards. Initiatives are identified throughout the year and celebrated at site. Each week, the Australian mines, Sunrise Dam and Tropicana, consider nominations for the awards and every month the teams select three to four initiatives. At Tropicana the team developed five projects in 2023 for which they received awards. One that stood out was the Power Line Crossing ROTA Markers developed by an AngloGold Ashanti Electrical Maintenance team. It involved Installation of a new style of overhead line indicators known as ROTA Markers. These markers use the wind to spin, creating movement and contrasting reflective light to draw people’s attention to the devices and the powerlines at road crossings. The key to these devices is the movement, as motion is highly effective in triggering a subconscious awareness response in our external environment. The markers reduce risk of contact with power lines cutting the potential for HPIs or fatalities.

Proud to be a part of this journey alongside Barminco and Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions – trialling the largest battery electric truck in Australia. We’re looking forward to exploring where battery powered vehicles could take us over the next decade.

World Mental Health Day | The WHO theme for 2024 is “Mental Health at Work". AngloGold Ashanti understands that to help our people and business to flourish, we must create a workplace culture that helps to promote the wellbeing of our workforce and their loved ones. We’re actively integrating psychological wellbeing and safety initiatives throughout our business, and this has resulted in our four-pillar mental health wellbeing strategy. The strategy is designed to prevent psychological hazards; promote and provide proactive and adequately responsive support; foster positive leadership and establish a values-based culture for our workforce.

Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (IDE) is extremely important to AngloGold Ashanti. In our quest to enhance the diversity of our workforce, we talked to the women of AGA and their allies, highlighting the importance of allies in our IDE agenda aligning it with our values. Allies help in creating an inclusive work environment for all people to thrive at AngloGold Ashanti - specifically women, minorities, and people with disabilities. We are proud to introduce Andrea Vélez and her ally/mentor Alvaro Pico.

Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (IDE) is extremely important to AngloGold Ashanti. In our quest to enhance the diversity of our workforce, we talked to the women of AGA and their allies, highlighting the importance of allies in our IDE agenda aligning it with our values. Allies help in creating an inclusive work environment for all people to thrive at AngloGold Ashanti - specifically women, minorities, and people with disabilities. We are proud to introduce Reabetswe Baitshenyetsi (well known as Rea) and her ally or mentor Tumelo Shakwane.

In South Africa the Wits AngloGold Ashanti Legacy Scholarship Endowment is not just about education—it's about empowering young people to shape the future.

Our CEO Alberto Calderon presented at the Denver Gold Group Gold Forum Americas 2024 today. The presentation is available on our website at: https://lnkd.in/dBzPktWq

We share our heartfelt gratitude to all who attended the launch of the Wits AngloGold Ashanti Legacy Scholarship Endowment at the university in Johannesburg. Our greatest pride is in the first 68 cohorts who will pave the way for the next generation. Together, we're shaping brighter futures for generations to come.