REG - Anglo American PLC - Receives operating licence for Minas-Rio tailings

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23/12/2019 07:05

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Anglo American PLC
23 December 2019
 





23 December 2019




Anglo American receives operating licence for Minas-Rio tailings facility




 



Anglo American announces that it has received the next phase of its operating licence for its Minas-Rio tailings facility in Brazil, following the work to raise the dam as part of the Step 3 licence area of the mine. The regulatory authorities in Brazil granted the installation licence for this work in January 2018 and the construction work was completed in accordance with that licence in August 2019.
 
Seamus French, CEO of Bulk Commodities at Anglo American, said: "This is an important milestone for our Minas-Rio iron ore operation in Brazil towards reaching its full potential. Minas-Rio has a long asset life of 48 years and produces a high grade, premium quality product for our customers, supporting lower emissions in the steel industry. We expect Minas-Rio to produce 23 million tonnes in 2019, with an FOB unit cost of c.US$24 per tonne."
 
The Minas-Rio tailings dam uses a downstream construction design and is an embankment dam structure, built using compacted imported earth-fill material, with carefully selected granular materials for the drainage and filter zones. Tailings are not used to build the dam, and instead construction materials are placed in controlled layers. This is a conservative and high quality design for a tailings dam, being designed and built as a water-retaining type of dam.
 
 
 
 
 
For further information, please contact:
 



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UK
James Wyatt-Tilby
james.wyatt-tilby@angloamerican.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8759
 
Marcelo Esquivel
marcelo.esquivel@angloamerican.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8891
 
Katie Ryall
katie.ryall@angloamerican.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8935
 
South Africa
Pranill Ramchander
pranill.ramchander@angloamerican.com
Tel: +27 (0)11 638 2592
 
Sibusiso Tshabalala
sibusiso.tshabalala@angloamerican.com
Tel: +27 (0)11 638 2175


 


UK
Paul Galloway
paul.galloway@angloamerican.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8718
 
Robert Greenberg
robert.greenberg@angloamerican.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 2124
 
Emma Waterworth
emma.waterworth@angloamerican.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8574




 


 


 




 


 


 



 
Notes to editors:
 
Minas-Rio operates a comprehensive tailings safety management programme, as required by Anglo American's rigorous Group Technical Standard, and in line with the Brazilian legislation and best practices around the world. It includes daily inspections, weekly instrument reading and geotechnical inspections at least every two weeks, as well as quarterly inspections performed by the Engineer of Record. In addition, a Technical Review Panel, composed of three experienced specialist engineers, provides an independent review at least once per year. The construction work and other aspects related to the facility are independently audited by the Brazilian Institute for Technological Research (IPT), one of the most renowned technical institutes in Brazil, which sends quarterly reports to the relevant authorities.
 
 
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.
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