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RNS Number : 2315C  Anglo American PLC  07 February 2024

  7 February 2024
 Minas-Rio and Barro Alto mines achieve IRMA 75 on responsible mining standard

Anglo American announces that its Minas-Rio iron ore and Barro Alto nickel
mines in Brazil have been assessed against the Initiative for Responsible
Mining Assurance's (IRMA) comprehensive mining standard, achieving the IRMA 75
level of performance, reflecting Anglo American's integrated approach to
sustainability and its commitment to transparency in striving for the highest
levels of responsible metals production.

 

Minas-Rio and Barro Alto are the first iron ore and nickel-producing mines in
the world to complete an IRMA audit. This follows the achievement of our Unki
platinum mine in Zimbabwe, the first in the world to publicly commit to be
independently audited against the IRMA Standard for Responsible Mining and
which also achieved IRMA 75 in 2021.

 

Ruben Fernandes, Anglo American's Regional Director - Americas, said: "We
believe our participation in IRMA helps promote transparency and best practice
in sustainability, while adding value to our customers by helping them to meet
increasing expectations for responsibly sourced mined materials in an
efficient and credible way. Through our digital traceability platform
Valutrax™, which launched last year, we are also making it easier for
customers to have visibility over products with third-party assurance such as
IRMA, empowering the transparency and provenance of their purchasing
decisions. We are continuing to make great progress towards assuring all our
operations against a recognised responsible mining standard by 2025, as we
committed to in our Sustainable Mining Plan."

 

Aimee Boulanger, Executive Director of IRMA, said: "We applaud Anglo American
for volunteering the first iron ore and nickel mines for an audit against the
IRMA Standard for Responsible Mining, and for its larger commitment to put all
their metal mining operations to IRMA audit. That commitment, along with their
IRMA Board membership, exemplifies Anglo American's ongoing leadership in the
practical application of responsible mining principles."

 

Ana Sanches, CEO of Anglo American in Brazil, commented: "The IRMA assurance
process has provided us with a valuable opportunity to measure our performance
at Minas-Rio and Barro Alto against international best sustainability
practices and identify next steps for improvement. The result is informed by
evidence from a diverse range of stakeholders including employees,
governments, NGOs, customers and communities alike. We are immensely proud of
the work the teams have been doing at Minas-Rio and Barro Alto on responsible
mining, and we look forward to continue leading the way for our other mining
operations across Anglo American."

The IRMA scoring system recognises four levels of performance: IRMA
Transparency, in which a mine is third-party-assessed and publicly shares its
scores; IRMA 50 or 75, signifying that a mine meets a core set of critical
requirements together with at least 50% or 75% of the requirements in each of
the four sections of the Standard for Responsible Mining and IRMA 100, which
signifies the mine meets all of the Standard's requirements.

 

Other Anglo American operations that have been independently audited include
the Mototolo, Amandelbult and Mogalakwena PGMs operations in South Africa; and
the Kolomela and Sishen iron ore operations, also in South Africa. The
outcomes of those audit reports are pending.

 

IRMA's Standard for Responsible Mining has been developed over a decade
through a public consultation process with more than 100 different individuals
and organisations, including mining companies, customers and the ultimate
downstream users of mined products, NGOs, labour unions, and communities, and
is considered to be one of the most rigorous certification processes.  The
link to the Minas-Rio and Barro Alto reports can be found on IRMA's website
at: https://responsiblemining.net/.

 

 

 

 

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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 operations, with a broad range of future development
options, provides many of the future-enabling metals and minerals for a
cleaner, greener, more sustainable world and that meet the fast growing every
day demands of billions of consumers. With our people at the heart of our
business, we use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover
new resources and to mine, process, move and market our products to our
customers - safely and sustainably.

 

As a responsible producer of copper, nickel, platinum group metals, diamonds
(through De Beers), and premium quality iron ore and steelmaking coal - with
crop nutrients in development - we are committed to being carbon neutral
across our operations by 2040. More broadly, our Sustainable Mining Plan
commits us to a series of stretching goals to ensure we work towards a healthy
environment, creating thriving communities and building trust as a corporate
leader. We work together with our business partners and diverse stakeholders
to unlock enduring value from precious natural resources for the benefit of
the communities and countries in which we operate, for society as a whole, and
for our shareholders. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve
people's lives.

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