Sustainability overview
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AngloGold Ashanti and business sustainability
AngloGold Ashanti is committed to fulfilling its obligations and duties as a responsible corporate citizen, ensuring that its behaviour reflects its values and concern for its stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, their families and the communities and environments in which we live and work.
For AngloGold Ashanti, sustainability is important because we believe that the wellbeing of society and the natural world is critical for businesses to thrive and create value. Our vision is to be the leading mining company, and we will only achieve this vision if we can prove our ability to operate sensitively to and with our host communities, demonstrating that we will partner with them to create enduring value.
Sustainability focus areas for the business include safety, health, community relationships, human rights and environmental and natural resource stewardship. We need to be mindful of these issues during the full lifecycle of our operations, to ensure orderly closure of our operations and that we leave communities better off for our presence.
» Further information may be found in the 2011 sustainability report and supplementary information
Sustainability report 2011 |
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Sustainability has been an overused word in our industry and is in danger of confusing and masking the simple things we need to do well in our business. Sustainability is about living our values, making sure we treat all of our business and social partners with dignity and respect. If we respect people, the environment and the communities in which we work we will never be far from our goal of leading a sustainable business and living our vision of being the leading mining company. |
 Mark Cutifani, Chief Executive Officer, AngloGold Ashanti |
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Constructive engagement between governments, business and civil society, and collaboration across industries will help us to collectively find innovative solutions and appropriate regulatory frameworks to address the Resource Nationalism challenge. The mining industry has a big task in demonstrating the benefits it brings to society. |
| Yedwa Simelane, Senior Vice President – Corporate Affairs, AngloGold Ashanti |
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When large-scale mining (LSM) operations move in to do their exploration, they will often follow the traces and tracks of where artisanal miners have been. When the LSM find a concession they are hoping to work on, they have hundreds of thousands of artisanal miners already there, who feel entitled to those minerals and feel they have a claim to those minerals. The negotiation involved in coming to some sort of a peaceful solution for that site is extremely important. |
| Karen Hayes, Technical Director, Mines to Markets Initiative, Pact |
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We seek to enhance the welfare, dignity and interests of our stakeholders including workers, shareholders and communities as a consequence of our business operations, providing socioeconomic benefits that are sustainable. |
| Sipho Pityana, Non Executive Director, AngloGold Ashanti |
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The business and leadership at all levels of the organisation are relentlessly committed to the safety and health of our employees. We strive for zero injuries and incidents each day, every day, everywhere we operate in the world. |
| Michael Parker, Senior Vice President - Safety and Environment, AngloGold Ashanti |
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We have made significant progress at our Ghanaian operations in stabilising our operational performance and addressing some of the key issues, specifically in the area of sustainability. The Obuasi Task Force has focused on 3 key areas: stabilisation and optimisation, sustainability and the development of a future blueprint for Obuasi. |
| Richard Duffy, Executive Vice President - Continental Africa, AngloGold Ashanti |
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Responsibly undertaken, mining and related activities can and should play a crucial role in achieving sustainable development and alleviating poverty in developing countries. Conformance with the World Gold Council Conflict-Free Gold Standard provides further confidence that professional gold mining can be an agent for social and economic development at both a national and community level. |
| Terry Heymann, Director Responsible Gold, World Gold Council |
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